Effectiveness of Midwife Phone Support With the to Reduce the Early Abandonment of Breastfeeding

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Breastfeeding
• Interventions: Other: Phone care support by midwife

• Registration Number: NCT03973476
• Lead Sponsor: Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

Brief Summary

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of telephone support of the reference midwife, in relation to the abandonment of breastfeeding of primiparous mothers and to identify, both the risk factors and the protective factors for the early abandonment of breastfeeding.

Material and Method Randomized parallel controlled clinical trial.

Detailed Description

Sample: 220 primiparous mothers with access, during the 8 weeks postpartum, to a mobile phone to contact the midwife randomization of 110 mothers to the experimental group and 110 to the control group. The mothers of the experimental group will be offered the mobile phone number to contact their midwife after delivery. The mothers of the control group will receive the usual attention of the portfolio of services that includes the spontaneous visit in the center, the telephone call in the center, the home visit and the health education groups.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-01-01
• Primary Completion: 2014-12-31
• Study Completion: 2017-12-31
• Status Verified: 2019-04
• Study First Submitted: 2019-04-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-06-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-06-03
• Study First Posted: 2019-06-04
• Last Update Posted: 2019-06-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 220

Inclusion Criteria

• Primiparians who carry out the follow-up of pregnancy for the midwife
• The pregnant woman is of low risk
• Possibility of the mother to make calls to the mobile phone.
• The pregnant woman wishes to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

• Maternal or fetal pathology that can condition maternal breastfeeding.
• idiomatic barrier.
• Prematurity.
• Baby with weight <2,500 gr. at birth
• Home delivery during the puerperium

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention group	Phone care support by midwife	Mothers received a phone support service with their midwife during the 8 weeks after childbirth.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Percentage of participants who breast-feed at 3 months of intervention	3 months	Women who still breastfeed 3 months after the intervention with respect to the control arm