A Randomised Community Based Experimental Trial in the Health Visitor's Practice Field
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Phase 1
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus
- Enrollment
- 1,456
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Breastfeeding duration
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to investigate if a postnatal public health breastfeeding intervention relying on the importance of the psychosocial factors can prolong the period with exclusive breastfeeding duration among mothers who want to breastfeed.
Detailed Description
Breastfeeding is a complex learned behaviour and not a capability which comes naturally with motherhood. Different types of professional recommendations have been used to support the new mother in this process.
Randomised studies have shown that postnatal support can influence the breastfeeding duration positively. Various studies has offered different kinds of interventions with home visits and/or telephone calls as the generally used approach, but the proper follow-up on the breastfeeding support in the postnatal period after the mother leaves the hospital is not yet clear.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 0 Years to — (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Danish mother, single child, gestational age of not less than 37 full weeks
Exclusion Criteria
- •Mothers with an ethic background other than Danish, preterm delivery,twin birth
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Breastfeeding duration
Secondary Outcomes
- Satisfaction with the breastfeeding period