Mother's Milk Messaging: Evaluation of a Bilingual Application (APP) to Support Initiation and Exclusive Breastfeeding in New Mothers

Summary

This study is being conducted to evaluate the breastfeeding support program utilizing bilingual English-Spanish tailored text messages and online support to support exclusive and continuous breastfeeding for new mothers--comparing texting alone, texting with an online support group to those with usual care. The cost involved in moderating the online groups and providing bidirectional consultation when needed will be evaluated and qualitative feedback from a subset of mothers in both intervention groups will be evaluated to determine what was effective, as well as suggestions for improvement of the messaging program.

Conditions

• Breastfeeding

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Social Support Group (Facebook)

The breastfeeding social support group on Facebook will be moderated to facilitate posting of shared experiences. Short videos, photographs, and written blurbs on related topics are posted on the Facebook page to reinforce the messaging and content of the texts.

BEHAVIORAL

Breastfeeding messages

The Mother's Milk Messaging app gives participants access to text messages via push notification on the app, as well as access to videos and written material to facilitate knowledge acquisition and skills building. The text messages are targeted at specific theoretical constructs such as outcome expectations/attitudes, barrier self-efficacy, reinforcing a message using peripheral (expert) opinion, eliciting a sense of social currency or providing a cue-to-action.

BEHAVIORAL

Injury Prevention Messages

The Mother's Milk Messaging app will provide participants in the control group with genetic injury prevention message.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• W.K. Kellogg Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Colorado, Denver

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Maya Bunik, MD, MPH · Colorado School of Public Health

• Jennifer Leiferman, PhD · Colorado School of Public Health

• Sheana Bull, PhD MPH · Colorado School of Public Health

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

40 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-09-25

Primary Completion

2020-07-31

Completion

2020-07-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations