NCT03617549

Stress and Breast Milk Study In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

A Pilot Test to Evaluate the Effect of Maternal Stress on Breastmilk Quantity and Stress Biomarkers in Mothers and Their Infants

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 27 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Rochester · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

The overall goal of this research is to clarify the relationship between reported maternal stress, biological measures of maternal stress, breast milk biomarkers and milk quantity. Our primary hypothesis is that measures of maternal stress are associated with cortisol, cytokines, and other stress markers in the blood, which impacts breast milk quantity and composition and which may impact infant health.

Conditions

• Breast Feeding
• Breast Milk Expression
• Stress

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-06-01
• Primary completion: 2020-03-30
• Completion: 2020-03-30
• First posted: 2018-08-06
• Last updated: 2020-08-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States