Evaluating an eHealth Breastfeeding Resource for Mothers, Fathers, Partners and Co-parents
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Breastfeeding, Exclusive
- Sponsor
- University of Ontario Institute of Technology
- Enrollment
- 217
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Infant Feeding Questionnaire
- Last Updated
- 6 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
This trial will evaluate an eHealth breastfeeding co-parenting resource designed for mothers and their co-parents. Couples will be randomized to study groups and the intervention group will receive information about this resource or the control group will receive usual care. The primary outcomes will be exclusive breastfeeding at 4 and 24 weeks postpartum.
Detailed Description
This trial will evaluate an eHealth breastfeeding co-parenting resource designed for mothers and their co-parents. Couples will be randomized to study groups and the intervention group will receive information about this resource with an online demonstration and weekly emails for 6 weeks reminding them about the resource. The control group will receive usual care and 6 weekly emails reminding them that they are in the study. The primary outcomes will be exclusive breastfeeding at 4 and 24 weeks postpartum. Additional outcomes will include: breastfeeding initiation, duration, challenges, attitude, knowledge, confidence, anxiety, partners support and co-parenting.
Investigators
Jennifer Abbass-Dick
Assistant Professor
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •18 years or older, over 25 weeks pregnant, planning to breastfeed, lives with co-parent who is willing to participate, first time mother or mother who has not previously breastfed,
Exclusion Criteria
- •does not have access to the internet and telephone, does not reads and speaks English, does not lives in Ontario, Canada, is expecting more than one child with this pregnancy
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Infant Feeding Questionnaire
Time Frame: 4 weeks
The primary outcome for this study is the rate of exclusive breastfeeding at 4 weeks postpartum. This is defined as no food or liquid other than breast milk (not even water) given to the infant and includes feeding expressed breast milk. However, under this definition of exclusive breastfeeding, undiluted drops or syrups consisting of vitamins, minerals supplements or medicines are included (Breastfeeding Committee for Canada, 2006; WHO, 2010). Exclusive breastfeeding will be determined by asking the mother what she has fed her baby in the last 7 days and what she usually feeds her baby. In this trial exclusive breastfeeding will be consistent with full breastfeeding described by Labbok and Krasovec (1990).
Secondary Outcomes
- Breastfeeding Attitude(baseline, 2 weeks post intervention, 4 weeks postpartum)
- Anxiety(baseline, 2 weeks post intervention, 4 weeks postpartum, 12 weeks)
- Partner support for infant feeding(4 and 12 weeks postpartum)
- Co-parenting infant feeding scale(4 and 12 weeks postpartum)
- Breastfeeding Knowledge(baseline, 2 weeks post intervention, 4 weeks postpartum)
- Breastfeeding Self-efficacy(baseline, 2 weeks post intervention, 4 weeks postpartum)