NCT06375655

Texting to Promote Breastfeeding (TOPS)

A Proposed Randomized Clinical Trial of the Effectiveness of a New Breastfeeding- Supportive Texting Program Designed Specifically for African-American/Black Expectant Women, as Compared to a National Maternal Health Texting Program, on Rates of Exclusive Breastfeeding at 2 Months

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 83 (actual)
• Sponsor: Case Western Reserve University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to see if a program of text messages that support and promote breastfeeding for expecting and delivered African-American/Black women (called TEAM2BF), as compared to a national maternal health texting program (called Bright By Text), can result in more women being able to breastfeed their infant. Because breastfeeding is healthy for mothers and babies, and because fewer African-American/Black women decide to breastfeed and continue breastfeeding than many other racial and ethnic groups, researchers like us are trying to figure out ways to be supportive to African-American/Black mothers who might be interested in breastfeeding. The investigators will enroll up to 80 mothers and their infants at UHCMC.

Conditions

• Increased Breastfeeding

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Team2BF	Team2BF includes 3-4 breastfeeding-supportive messages per time interval, sent weekly from 28 weeks gestation through delivery, daily through 2 weeks postpartum, weekly from 2 to 10 weeks, and then monthly to one year. Other maternal health topics are not addressed.
BEHAVIORAL	Bright By Text	Bright By Text sends 2-4 messages per week from the first trimester through and beyond one year postpartum about a wide range of maternal and child health topics as outlined on their website; 8 messages are specifically about breastfeeding.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-07-15
• Primary completion: 2025-08-08
• Completion: 2025-08-08
• First posted: 2024-04-19
• Last updated: 2025-11-18
• Results posted: 2025-11-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States