Empowering New Mothers: Exploring the Effect of Breastfeeding Health Educational Program on Practices and Feeding Self-Efficacy of Primigravida in Saudi Arabia

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Primigravida Women

• Registration Number: NCT06423534
• Lead Sponsor: Alexandria University

Brief Summary

Being pregnant causes a mother and her child to form a maternal tie, and the birth of the child fills the mother with an immense amount of love and happiness. Breastfeeding is how a mother and infant make their initial touch. Breastfeeding is a mother's priceless gift to her infant and nature's own method of nurturing a baby.

Detailed Description

This study will be done to evaluate the primigravida mother's breastfeeding's knowledge, attitude and corrective technique through the implementation of an educational program and to ascertain the efficacy of such a program.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2024-03-20
• Status Verified: 2024-05
• Study First Submitted: 2024-05-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-05-16
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-05-16
• Study First Posted: 2024-05-21
• Last Update Posted: 2024-05-21
• Primary Completion: 2024-07-15
• Study Completion: 2024-08-10

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 70

Inclusion Criteria

• Primigravida mothers who regularly visit maternity hospitals at Hail and Bisha City.
• Primigravida mothers during last three trimester and 1 month after delivery
• No problems during pregnant and have a healthy baby
• Primigravida mothers who are not contraindicated to breastfeeding

Exclusion Criteria

• Multigravida mothers and pregnant women during first and second trimester

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
A preformatted structured questionnaire	3 months	It was developed by Tella et al. (2016) and comprised 12 questions that were assessed in various areas under various breastfeeding techniques practice.
Self-Efficacy Scale - Short-Form (BSES-SF)	3 months	It was adopted (Dennis, 2003) that assess maternal self-efficacy for breastfeeding throughout all stages of the study. The BSES-SF is a Likert scale with 14 items organized into two domains, namely: technical and intrapersonal thoughts.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Faculty of Nursing, Hail university; 🇸🇦 Hail, Saudi Arabia