Evaluation of Health Professional Learners' Competence in Newborn Positioning and Attachment Following a Standardized Patient-led Lactation Skills Workshop

LiquidGoldConcept

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Simulation; Breastfeeding

Treatments: Other: Breastfeeding Skills Workshop

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT04717128

21-002

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluating newborn positioning and attachment is a key skill for maternal-child healthcare providers. Trainees have limited opportunities to practice this skill in their clinical rotations due to a lack of access to lactating patients. Thus, positioning and attachment training is traditionally conducted through passive modalities, primarily videos.

Investigators aim to evaluate the impact of an interactive breastfeeding skills workshop using a baby doll on health professional learners' ability to identify effective and ineffective positioning and attachment at the breast.

Full description

Faculty at the University of Michigan School of Public Health (UM-SPH), Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHUSON), and Michigan State University (MSU) are collaborating with LiquidGoldConcept (LGC), a company focusing on simulation-based training in maternal-child care, to evaluate the impact of high-fidelity simulation on health professional learner outcomes. For the Phase I SBIR, LGC is developing a high-fidelity newborn simulator for healthcare professional education in clinical lactation.

Evaluating newborn positioning and attachment is a key skill for maternal-child healthcare providers. Trainees have limited opportunities to practice this skill in their clinical rotations due to a lack of access to lactating patients. Thus, positioning and attachment training is traditionally conducted through passive modalities, primarily videos.

Investigators aim to evaluate the impact of an interactive breastfeeding skills workshop using a baby doll on health professional learners' ability to identify effective and ineffective positioning and attachment at the breast.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Enrollment in a health professional training program (e.g. medical student, nursing student, physician resident)

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Baby doll with user remote controlled jaw

Experimental group

Description:

In this arm, standardized patients will use the Newborn Oral Assessment and Latch Simulator (NORALSim) to demonstrate and teach newborn positioning and attachment in the breastfeeding skills workshop.

Treatment:

Other: Breastfeeding Skills Workshop

Baby doll with hand controlled jaw

Active Comparator group

Description:

In this arm, standardized patients will use a cloth baby doll with a puppet-style mouth to demonstrate and teach newborn positioning and attachment in the breastfeeding skills workshop.

Treatment:

Other: Breastfeeding Skills Workshop