Improving Mother Milk Feeding Benefits in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Nanjing Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality Improvement; Breast Milk

Treatments: Behavioral: Quality improvement of breast milk feeding

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03453502

NMU-FY2017-350

Details and patient eligibility

About

Twenty-seven hospitals in China will participate in the study, which aims to increase breastfeeding rate in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and reduce the clinical complications in very low birth weight infants and extremely low birth weight infants.

Full description

Breast milk reduces the risk of serious prematurity related morbidities. Quality improvement is an effective means of increasing breast milk feeding.Twenty-seven hospitals in China will participate in the study, which aims to increase breastfeeding rate in the NICU and reduce the clinical complications in very low birth weight infants and extremely low birth weight infants. This study compared the clinical data of very low birth weight infants and extremely low birth weight infants in three phases：Before-intervention phase，Intervention phase and Sustainability phase. During the Intervention phase and Sustainability phase multiple intervention bundles of quality improvement were implemented.The investigators will compare breast milk feeding rate and neonatal outcomes in different phases.

Enrollment: 1,800 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 120 days old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• premature Infants (Birth weight<1500g)

Exclusion criteria

• mother with sever illness or communicable disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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1,800 participants in 3 patient groups

Before-intervention phase

No Intervention group

Description:

All the very low birth weight (VLBW) and extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants who were admitted from January 2017 to December 2017 to the NICUs of different hospitals.

Intervention phase

Experimental group

Description:

All the VLBW and ELBW infants who were admitted from January 2018 to December 2018 to the NICUs.During this phase,multiple intervention bundles of quality improvement will be implemented.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Quality improvement of breast milk feeding

Sustainability intervention phase

Experimental group

Description:

All the VLBW and ELBW infants who were admitted from January 2019 to December 2019to the NICUs.In the Sustainability intervention phase,multiple intervention bundles of quality improvement will be continuous implemented.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Quality improvement of breast milk feeding