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The Effect of Varied Intensities of Breastfeeding Peer Support on Duration of Breastfeeding Among Oregon WIC Participants

NCT02120248 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1948

Last updated 2014-04-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The U.S. Surgeon General has recommended that peer counseling to support breastfeeding become a core service of the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). As of 2008, 50 percent of WIC clients received services from local WIC agencies that offered peer counseling. Little is known as to the effectiveness of these peer counseling programs. Randomized controlled trials of peer counseling interventions among low-income women in the U.S. showed increases in breastfeeding initiation and duration, but it is doubtful that the level of support provided could be scaled up to service WIC clients nationally. The investigators tested whether a telephone peer counseling program among WIC participants could increase breastfeeding initiation, duration and exclusivity.

Conditions

  • Breastfeeding

Interventions

OTHER

Telephone-based breastfeeding peer counseling

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • USDA Food and Nutrition Service

    collaborator FED

  • Oregon WIC Program

    lead OTHER_GOV

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-07-31
Primary Completion
2007-07-31
Completion
2007-12-31

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