Effectiveness of Midwife Phone Support With the to Reduce the Early Abandonment of Breastfeeding
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 220
- Primary Endpoint
- Percentage of participants who breast-feed at 3 months of intervention
Study Overview
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 Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Health Services Research
- Masking
- Single (Participant)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 40 Years (Adult)
- Sex
- Female
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
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
Arms & Interventions
Intervention group
Mothers received a phone support service with their midwife during the 8 weeks after childbirth.
Intervention: Phone care support by midwife (Other)
Control group
Mothers received standard postpartum care
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Percentage of participants who breast-feed at 3 months of intervention
Time Frame: 3 months
Women who still breastfeed 3 months after the intervention with respect to the control arm
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported