The Influence of Upright Feeding Position on Pulmonary and Ear Morbidity

Hadassah Medical Center

Status

Completed

Conditions

Feeding and Eating Disorders

Treatments

Behavioral: upright head position

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03247946

0349-10-HMO

Details and patient eligibility

About

Does upright feeding position of 3 month old infants reduce respiratory and ear morbidity during the following year?

Full description

The investigators examined the influence of teaching mothers to feed infants with their head in an upright position and evaluated the infant ear and respiratory morbidity during a one-year follow-up. Mothers of 88 infants born during 2011 were instructed by trained nurses at Maternal-Child-Health clinics to feed their infants with their head in upright position (intervention group). The control group consisted of 75 mothers of infants of similar socioeconomic background who fed their infant regularly without any instructions and were followed at another Maternal-Child-Health clinic. Feeding position was evaluated at the beginning and the end of the study, and morbidity data of both groups were evaluated at every 3-month follow-up meeting. The study was part of the PhD thesis of Efrat Danino, Head Nurse of Pediatric Department at Hadassah Medical Organization.

Enrollment

163 patients

Sex

All

Ages

3 to 4 months old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

healthy 3 month old infants, bottle fed at least once a day, parent agreeing to participate

Exclusion criteria

Prematurity, need of supplemental oxygen, broncho-pulmonary dysplasia, cystic fibrosis, familial dysautonomia, cleft lip or cleft palate, any ear-throat-lung or airway congenital anomaly, congenital heart disease, any other chronic disease of childhood or malignancy