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Baby-Friendly Community Health Services Evaluation

NCT01025362 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2032

Last updated 2014-10-31

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Summary

The Norwegian Action Plan on Nutrition aim at increasing the prevalence of breastfeeding. The initiative "Baby-Friendly Community Health Services (BFCHS)" is an initiative to reach this goal. BFCHS is developed from the concept "The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative" by WHO/UNICEF, and the intention is to increase the quality of breastfeeding counseling at Norwegian well-baby clinics.

The purpose of the study

The study seeks to answer the following research questions:

* What effect does the process of being certified as a BFCHS have on the proportion of mothers who exclusively breastfeed their children for 5 months?
* What effect does the process of being certified as a BFCHS have on the proportion of mothers who exclusively breastfeed for 4 months?
* What effect does the certification process have on the proportion of mothers who breastfeed at 11 months of age?
* What effect does the certification process have on the differences in breastfeeding due to social inequality?
* What effect does the certification process have on the mothers impression of the quality of the well-baby clinics lactation counseling?
* What effect does the certification process have on mothers satisfaction with the breastfeeding experience?
* What effect does the certification process have on perceived pressure to breastfeed? Methods Cluster randomized controlled study Sampling The survey unit, cluster, will be the community health services. All community health services in six counties in Norway will be invited to participate.

Inclusion criteria: Norwegian speaking mothers who have 5 month and 11 month old children.

Data collection Respondents are identified through the National Population Register (DSF). The data collection takes place using a postal questionnaire.

Baseline: Data collection before the intervention is implemented to assess breastfeeding prevalence and distribution of covariates in the two study arms.

Post-survey: The post-survey to assess the effect, will take place about two years after baseline when the community health services have been certified.

Sample size It is expected that the project could increase the breastfeeding prevalence with 5 percentage points. This assumption is the basis for the sample size. The initial aim is to recruit about 50 well-baby clinics.

Conditions

  • Lactation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Lactation counseling

The Baby-Friendly Community Health Service intervention to improve quality of lactation counseling.

BEHAVIORAL

Standard care

Child Health Services offered standard care

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Oslo University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Beate F Loland, Md PhD

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Months
Max Age
13 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-08-31
Primary Completion
2013-02-28
Completion
2013-08-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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