The Impact of Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative to Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Counselling and Breastfeeding Attitudes

University of Turku

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breastfeeding

Treatments: Other: Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03070041

Satavamy

Details and patient eligibility

About

The impact of Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) to breastfeeding, breastfeeding counselling and breastfeeding attitudes will be examined in Satakunta Central Hospital, Finland. The baseline measurement will be conducted before the implementation of BFHI in 2017 and second measurement will be conducted in 2019 after the certification process. Both staff members and breastfeeding mothers will be recruited in the study. The main outcomes are the duration of breastfeeding and breastfeeding attitudes.

Enrollment: 425 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Staff: All staff members taking care of mothers and/or infants in the hospital.
• Mothers: Mothers who have given birth in the study hospital during the data collection period.

Exclusion criteria

• Mothers:

  • who have given birth outside the hospital,
  • whose infant's condition is critical,
  • whose infants are transferred to another unit.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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425 participants in 1 patient group

Mothers and staff members

Experimental group

Description:

The mothers who will give birth at the study hospital and all the staff members taking care about mothers and/or infants

Treatment:

Other: Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative