Effects of a Breastfeeding Self-Care Program on Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy among Primiparous wome

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Breastfeeding; Reproductive Health and Childbirth - Breast feeding

• Registration Number: ACTRN12614001305617
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Malaya

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2014-12-15
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 90

Inclusion Criteria

1) first time delivery
2) singleton birth
3) delivered full term infant at or after 37 weeks of gestation
4) initiated breastfeeding, and
5) able to speak and understand English or Malay.

Exclusion Criteria

The primiparous women having a condition that might interfere with breastfeeding were excluded; such conditions were women with psychosis or severe illness after delivery, antibiotic therapy that required pumping and discarding, infants with congenital anomaly and infants in NICU for more than 24 hours.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
breastfeeding self-efficacy scores using BSES-SF [Baseline and 6 weeks post commencement of the intervention.]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
association of maternal demographic variables (age, race, education, work status and others) with BSES-SF scores[6 weeks post commencement of the intervention]