NCT04383379

To Improve the Rate of Mother's Own Milk Feeding of Premature Infants in NICU

Evidence-Based Practice for Improving Quality(EPIQ) to Improve the Rate of Mother's Own Milk Feeding of Premature Infants in NICU: Study Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,500 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Nanjing Medical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 120 Days
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Thirteen hospitals in China will participate in the study, which objectives of this study is to improve the rate of mother's own milk feeding of premature infants in neonatal intensive care unit(NICU), evaluate the effectiveness of improving the quality of breastfeeding in clinical use ,form standardized process and improve clinical medical quality of premature infants.

Detailed description

In this study, the cluster randomized controlled matching design was used. Considering that evidence-based practice for improving quality(EPIQ) method is not only to improve the quality of individual, but also to improve the quality of breast-feeding of the whole neonatal intensive care unit(NICU), so a hospital was chosen as a cluster. The supervision unit is used for the quality control , coordination and technical support in the whole study process.The two NICU with similar number of premature infants, the same scale of NICU and little difference in the recognition of breast-feeding quality improvement measures that meet the inclusion criteria are taken as the a floor, and then randomly divided into two groups, taking the NICU as intervention group or the control group can avoid the individual influence of the intervention. In this study, recruited 12 NICUs. The purpose of study is to to increase the consumption of mother's own milk of premature infants through the existing measures of improving the breastfeeding quality, and then to improve the quality of life of the premature infant, and to further evaluate whether this model of improving the breastfeeding quality can be promoted in other NICU.

Conditions

• Quality Improvement
• Breast-feeding
• Premature Infant

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Experimental: Intervention group	The intervention NICUs (n = 6) will receive training in the Evidence-based Practice for Improving Quality (EPIQ) method and then develop, implement, and document evidence-based practice changes toimprove the rate of breastfeeding . Compliance with practice changes and neonatal outcomes will be monitored. NICUs will receive quarterly feedback on their progress, as well as access to implementation support.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-05-15
• Primary completion: 2022-04-30
• Completion: 2022-04-30
• First posted: 2020-05-12
• Last updated: 2021-11-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China