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Adolescent Mothers, Grandmothers, Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding

NCT00910377 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 344

Last updated 2009-05-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether counseling sessions on breastfeeding for adolescent mothers and their grandmothers in the maternity ward and at home are effective in to improve the exclusive and total breastfeeding rates during the first six month, as well as the convenient timing of supplementary feeding introduction.

Conditions

  • Breastfeeding
  • Weaning

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

counseling sessions

The intervention groups received counseling sessions about breastfeeding and complementary feeding at maternity ward and at home with 7,15,30,60 and 120 days.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • ELSA REGINA J GIUGLIANI, MD,PhD,IBCLC · Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
19 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-05-31
Primary Completion
2008-08-31
Completion
2009-01-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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