Adolescent Mothers, Grandmothers, Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Breastfeeding; Weaning
• Interventions: Behavioral: counseling sessions

• Registration Number: NCT00910377
• Lead Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether counseling sessions on breastfeeding for adolescent mothers and their grandmothers in the maternity ward and at home are effective in to improve the exclusive and total breastfeeding rates during the first six month, as well as the convenient timing of supplementary feeding introduction.

Detailed Description

Despite the recognized value of exclusive breastfeeding during the first months of a child's life and efforts for promoting this practice, rates for this pattern of breastfeeding in Brazil are below those recommended by the World Health Organization(WHO), which advocates exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months. The last national survey about the prevalence of breastfeeding revealed a median duration of 10 months. However , the length of exclusive breastfeeding was only 23 days.

A lot of studies identified maternal age as predictor of breastfeeding. In African, Asian, Latin American and the Pacific societies, older women, or grandmothers,traditionally have considerable influence on decisions related to maternal and child health at the household level.

Considering all that, interventions intended to increase frequency of breastfeeding, particularly exclusive breastfeeding. However, there are few studies on this subject.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2006-05
• Primary Completion: 2008-08
• Study Completion: 2009-01
• Status Verified: 2009-05
• Study First Submitted: 2009-05-28
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-05-28
• Last Update Submitted: 2009-05-28
• Study First Posted: 2009-05-29
• Last Update Posted: 2009-05-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 344

Inclusion Criteria

• Adolescent mothers
• Mothers living in the city of Porto Alegre
• Healthy nontwin newborns with birth weight equal or greater than 2500g

Exclusion Criteria

• Mothers living with mother-in-law
• Mother-infant pairs that were unable to stay together due to a health concern in either the mother or infant
• Mammaplasty reductive

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
visit with grandmother	counseling sessions	Teenagers mothers and their grandmothers receive counseling sessions about breastfeeding and complementary feeding.
visit without grandmother	counseling sessions	Teenagers mothers don´t live with their grandmothers and receive counseling sessions about breastfeeding and complementary feeding.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Frequency of exclusive and total breastfeeding	First year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pattern of complementary feeding	one year

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre; 🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil