NCT03247946

The Influence of Upright Feeding Position on Pulmonary and Ear Morbidity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 163 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Months – 4 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Does upright feeding position of 3 month old infants reduce respiratory and ear morbidity during the following year?

Detailed description

The investigators examined the influence of teaching mothers to feed infants with their head in an upright position and evaluated the infant ear and respiratory morbidity during a one-year follow-up. Mothers of 88 infants born during 2011 were instructed by trained nurses at Maternal-Child-Health clinics to feed their infants with their head in upright position (intervention group). The control group consisted of 75 mothers of infants of similar socioeconomic background who fed their infant regularly without any instructions and were followed at another Maternal-Child-Health clinic. Feeding position was evaluated at the beginning and the end of the study, and morbidity data of both groups were evaluated at every 3-month follow-up meeting. The study was part of the PhD thesis of Efrat Danino, Head Nurse of Pediatric Department at Hadassah Medical Organization.

Conditions

• Feeding and Eating Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	upright head position	Bottle feeding of infants with their head in upward and not supine head position

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-09-13
• Primary completion: 2012-08-19
• Completion: 2012-08-19
• First posted: 2017-08-14
• Last updated: 2017-08-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel