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An Innovative Continuum of Care to Promote Exclusive Breastfeeding

NCT05951868 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2023-07-19

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Summary

Malnutrition and non optimal breastfeeding is one the the major cause of high infant morbidity and mortality in a developing country like Pakistan. In addition low women literacy rate,socioeconomic factors, cultural limitations,poor excess to information, misconceptions and other factors has led to low breastfeeding rates.

There has also been a shift over time from home based care and delivery to antenatal care from skilled providers and deliveries within health care facilities. Which is an opportunity to strengthen breastfeeding counselling to mothers starting from health facility where mothers come for antenatal visits and by utilising other modes of counselling within the health facility (which have weak or non-existing structured breast feeding program) and when mothers home till 6 months as a continuous support. Women from different backgrounds have opportunity to get excess to complete information on benefits,misconceptions and myths of breastfeeding which is understandable and acceptable by her, to enable her to make an informed decision to initiate early, exclusively breastfeed and to continue breastfeeding till 2 years or beyond.

The intervention group will receive interventions, will include a family member as a support for participant in her breastfeeding, 2 sessions of counselling on breastfeeding during participants antenatal visits,sharing of readable booklet \& video messages on Whats App application of cell phones about breastfeeding, hands on training by nurse after delivery, and continuum of support by multiple visits of lady health workers when the mothers home till 6 months. It will also include training of doctor,nurse \& lady health workers involved in the intervention.

The content of intervention will contain benefits \& ideal breastfeeding practices, latching \& feeding positions,expression \& storage of breast milk, associated myths \& difficulties with solutions in breastfeeding.

The control group participants will receive the routine support on breastfeeding given in hospital and in the community.

Feasibility, acceptability, cost effectiveness, sustainability and effectiveness of the intervention will be assessed.

Conditions

  • Breastfeeding

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Continuum of support on breastfeeding.

A continuous support program for women from antenatal period till 6 months after delivery to initiate early breastfeeding, exclusively breastfeeding for 6 month and to continue breastfeeding till 2 years and beyond.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Health Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Zahid A Chaudry, MSPH · Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics teaching unit, Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital Gujrat

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-07-06
Primary Completion
2024-04-15
Completion
2024-04-30

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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