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The Impact of Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative to Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Counselling and Breastfeeding Attitudes

NCT03070041 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 425

Last updated 2020-11-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The impact of Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) to breastfeeding, breastfeeding counselling and breastfeeding attitudes will be examined in Satakunta Central Hospital, Finland. The baseline measurement will be conducted before the implementation of BFHI in 2017 and second measurement will be conducted in 2019 after the certification process. Both staff members and breastfeeding mothers will be recruited in the study. The main outcomes are the duration of breastfeeding and breastfeeding attitudes.

Conditions

  • Breastfeeding

Interventions

OTHER

Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative

The intervention is Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative as described by WHO and UNICEF. The ten steps to successful breastfeeding will be implemented in the hospital.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Turku

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-04-01
Primary Completion
2020-02-28
Completion
2020-02-28

Countries

  • Finland

Study Locations

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