NCT04717128

Evaluation of Health Professional Learners' Competence in Newborn Positioning and Attachment Following a Standardized Patient-led Lactation Skills Workshop

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: LiquidGoldConcept · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Evaluating newborn positioning and attachment is a key skill for maternal-child healthcare providers. Trainees have limited opportunities to practice this skill in their clinical rotations due to a lack of access to lactating patients. Thus, positioning and attachment training is traditionally conducted through passive modalities, primarily videos. Investigators aim to evaluate the impact of an interactive breastfeeding skills workshop using a baby doll on health professional learners' ability to identify effective and ineffective positioning and attachment at the breast.

Detailed description

Faculty at the University of Michigan School of Public Health (UM-SPH), Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHUSON), and Michigan State University (MSU) are collaborating with LiquidGoldConcept (LGC), a company focusing on simulation-based training in maternal-child care, to evaluate the impact of high-fidelity simulation on health professional learner outcomes. For the Phase I SBIR, LGC is developing a high-fidelity newborn simulator for healthcare professional education in clinical lactation. Evaluating newborn positioning and attachment is a key skill for maternal-child healthcare providers. Trainees have limited opportunities to practice this skill in their clinical rotations due to a lack of access to lactating patients. Thus, positioning and attachment training is traditionally conducted through passive modalities, primarily videos. Investigators aim to evaluate the impact of an interactive breastfeeding skills workshop using a baby doll on health professional learners' ability to identify effective and ineffective positioning and attachment at the breast.

Conditions

• Breastfeeding
• Patient Simulation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Breastfeeding Skills Workshop	Participants will complete the standardized patient-led breastfeeding skills workshop where they will learn breast massage techniques to alleviate plugged ducts and engorgement, hand expression of breast milk, effective breast pump use, and newborn positioning and attachment.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-28
• Primary completion: 2021-02-04
• Completion: 2021-06-01
• First posted: 2021-01-20
• Last updated: 2022-03-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States