The LATCHING Pilot Project

University of Kansas

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breastfeeding

Treatments: Behavioral: Behavior Lifestyle Intervention; Other: Usual prenatal care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03442517

STUDY00140506

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to learn if group-based phone counseling is effective for increasing breastfeeding rates, reducing the early introduction of solids and increasing maternal weight loss after pregnancy.

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women who are 9-30 weeks in gestation that have not previously met breastfeeding recommendations
• Speak and understand English

Exclusion criteria

• Women with pregnancies conceived using fertility treatments, those at high risk for pre-term delivery, those with multiple gestation (ie. twins, triplets, etc), or pregnancies complicated by morbid obesity (BMI>40), diabetes (pre-gestational or gestational), hypertension, metabolic dysfunction, etc.
• Women who have previously exclusively breastfed an infant for three or more months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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46 participants in 2 patient groups

Group-based phone counseling (GBPC)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will take part in weekly group-based phone counseling sessions for 6 weeks starting between 16-30 weeks of pregnancy.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavior Lifestyle Intervention

Usual prenatal care

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will continue their usual prenatal care.

Treatment:

Other: Usual prenatal care