NCT02111694

Influence of Bottle-Type on Infant Feeding Behaviors

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 29 (actual)
• Sponsor: Drexel University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objective of the proposed research is to conduct a within-subject, experimental study that will describe mothers' feeding practices during typical bottle-feeding conditions and will examine whether removal of visual cues related to the amount of milk/formula in the bottle will alter these feeding practices. The investigators hypothesize that mothers will show higher levels of infant-directed feeding practices and lower levels of mother-directed feeding practices when using opaque, weighted bottles compared to when using standard, clear bottles. The investigators also hypothesize that infants will consume less breast milk or formula when fed from opaque, weighted bottles compared to when fed from standard, clear bottles.

Conditions

• Conventional Clear Bottle
• Opaque Weighted Bottle

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Bottle Type	Infants will be fed from a conventional, clear bottle during one feeding and from an opaque, weighted bottle from another feeding

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-06-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2014-06-01
• First posted: 2014-04-11
• Last updated: 2015-10-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States