Orientation Effects of Breastfeeding for Mothers

Hospital Moinhos de Vento

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breastfeeding

Treatments: Other: Breastfeeding guidance

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02994810

HMV - Breastfeeding

Details and patient eligibility

About

The benefits of breastfeeding are increasingly known of the population and breastfeeding rates in the country have been increasing, but still are below satisfactory to the Ministry of Health (MH) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Simple Strategies to guide and support the mother contributes to increasing knowledge about breastfeeding and can have positive impacts on breastfeeding rates.

Full description

Assess the impact of guidance on breastfeeding duration of exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of a baby's life.

110 pairs of mother / baby - Recruitment: Private Hospital of Porto Alegre.

The first stage was carried out in the maternity - Orientation: Breastfeeding Importance Handle Correct, Positioning mother and baby, socioeconomic data and demographics. For the intervention group held three home visits:

10th day, 1st and 2nd month of the baby's life. At 6 months were made telephone contact for both groups.

Enrollment: 217 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Mothers living in the city of Porto Alegre

Exclusion criteria

• Mothers who test positive for HIV, poor hearing, visual and mental disorders, preterm infants, twin hospitalized

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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217 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Guidelines and review of the breastfeeding techniques.

Treatment:

Other: Breastfeeding guidance

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will receive home visits only when the baby is 6 months of life, they will be re-evaluated by the researchers as the practice of exclusive breastfeeding and the technical and nursing management, and will be asked about the main difficulties encountered in maintaining breastfeeding.