NCT03973476

Effectiveness of Midwife Phone Support With the to Reduce the Early Abandonment of Breastfeeding

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 220 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of telephone support of the reference midwife, in relation to the abandonment of breastfeeding of primiparous mothers and to identify, both the risk factors and the protective factors for the early abandonment of breastfeeding. Material and Method Randomized parallel controlled clinical trial.

Detailed description

Sample: 220 primiparous mothers with access, during the 8 weeks postpartum, to a mobile phone to contact the midwife randomization of 110 mothers to the experimental group and 110 to the control group. The mothers of the experimental group will be offered the mobile phone number to contact their midwife after delivery. The mothers of the control group will receive the usual attention of the portfolio of services that includes the spontaneous visit in the center, the telephone call in the center, the home visit and the health education groups.

Conditions

• Breastfeeding

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Phone care support by midwife	Mothers can call the midwife's telephone every working day from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-31
• Completion: 2017-12-31
• First posted: 2019-06-04
• Last updated: 2019-06-04