Effect of Intervention About Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding in Adolescent Mothers and Their Grandmothers
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Breastfeeding
- Sponsor
- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
- Enrollment
- 344
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Frequency of exclusive and total breastfeeding
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 16 years ago
Overview
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.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
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
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Frequency of exclusive and total breastfeeding
Time Frame: First year
Secondary Outcomes
- Pattern of complementary feeding(one year)