NCT04536896

Smartphone Application for Breastfeeding Education in Medical Students

Efficacy of a Smartphone App for a Breastmilk Feeding Course Among Sixth Year Medical Students

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 438 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of two educational interventions to enhance breastfeeding knowledge among senior medical students. One intervention consisted of a traditional face-to-face teaching lecture and the other consisted of the use of a smartphone application containing information about breastfeeding.

Detailed description

A quasi-experimental study was performed. Students were allocated to two groups; the first group underwent a 6-hour face-to-face breastfeeding course which was divided in four 1.5-hour sessions during a time span of two weeks. The second intervention consisted of downloading a digital smartphone application designed by the research team to teach proper breastfeeding concepts which participants freely navigated during the same time span of two weeks. Before and after each intervention, students answered a general breastfeeding knowledge test consisting of twenty multiple choice answers with a score range of 0 to 20. Statistical comparisons between pre- and post-test scores were performed in each group and mean change in scores was compared between them to establish which method was the most efficient. Moreover, amount of time spent on the application was descriptively measured.

Conditions

• Medical Education

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Smartphone breastfeeding application	This intervention consists of a smartphone application which contains relevant information and topics regarding proper breastfeeding knowledge for medical students.
OTHER	Traditional face-to-face breastfeeding lecture	This intervention consists of the impartition of a face-to-face breastfeeding course

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-07-31
• Primary completion: 2019-07-31
• Completion: 2019-12-15
• First posted: 2020-09-03
• Last updated: 2020-09-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Mexico