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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase Breast Milk Use in a Chinese NICU: a Pilot Study

NCT02897388 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 325

Last updated 2016-09-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To assess the prevalence of breast milk feeding in a NICU in China, to implement a quality improvement program to increase breast milk feeding, and to evaluate its impact.

Conditions

  • Infant, Extremely Premature

Interventions

OTHER

breast milk consume promotion

(1)Team building: organize a multidisciplinary breast milk consume improvement team；(2) Staff education: one nurse to train in Canada for 1 month as lactation coordinator, lactation consultant from Canada to teach NICU staff for 1 month; (3) Send breastmilk teaching materials for parents to teach mothers about breast milk feeding;(4) allocate an area in the NICU as a breast pumping room with breastfeeding pumps and chairs to support mothers pumping milk and feeding their babies; (5)purchase 10 breast pumps from Medela and establish a loaner program for mothers; (6)provide lactation counseling \& promote consistent communication about the benefits of mothers' milk to encourage mothers to provide milk for their infants;(7)Coaching by lactation coordinator and nursing staff

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Children's Hospital of Fudan University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yi Yang, Ph.D · Children's Hospital of Fudan University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
37 Weeks
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-11-30
Primary Completion
2016-06-30
Completion
2016-06-30

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