LIFT: Telemedicine Breastfeeding Support

University of California (UC) Davis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breastfeeding

Treatments: Other: Standard of Care; Behavioral: Telemedicine Support

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03901833

1382496

Details and patient eligibility

About

The central hypothesis guiding this project is that tailored breastfeeding support, that leverages easily accessible telemedicine technologies, can improve breastfeeding outcomes among late preterm dyads. The long-term goals of this project are to improve maternal and child health and reduce health disparities by designing and implementing evidence-based interventions to improve breastfeeding outcomes for this challenging patient population. This study seeks to identify lactation support practices that improve breastfeeding duration and to test the effect of telemedicine breastfeeding support on breastfeeding duration, among the nearly one in ten mothers who deliver late preterm (34-37 6/7 weeks), as this subpopulation of mothers faces the highest rates of premature breastfeeding cessation

Enrollment: 56 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• maternal age 18-49 years
• late preterm delivery (34-37 6/7 weeks)
• enrollment up to 1 week postpartum
• breastfeeding initiated
• access to a smartphone, tablet, or laptop computer in their home

Exclusion criteria

• incarceration
• inability to communicate in English
• infant with medical condition compromising breastfeeding (e.g. cleft lip and/or palate).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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56 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Telemedicine Support

Experimental group

Description:

Weekly telemedicine breastfeeding support visits for four weeks, delivered via telemedicine

Treatment:

Behavioral: Telemedicine Support

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Standard of care

Treatment:

Other: Standard of Care