Assessing Exclusive Breastfeeding Practice

Summary

This study was a longitudinal design. The questionnaire on exclusive breastfeeding was administered and was validated against the deuterium oxide dose-to-mother technique to assess human milk intake of babies aged 3 and 6 mo.

Conditions

• Exclusive Breastfeeding
• Human Milk
• Breast Milk

Interventions

OTHER

Deuterium dose-to-mother method for assessing breastfeeding

Exclusive breastfeeding practice was compared between maternal recall and the deuterium dose-to-mother method.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH)

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• National Institute of Nutrition, Vietnam

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

  collaborator OTHER

• International Atomic Energy Agency

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• St. John's Research Institute

  collaborator OTHER

• National Institute of Health Research and Development, Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia

  collaborator OTHER

• Research Organization for Nuclear Energy-BRIN Indonesia

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• National University of Malaysia

  collaborator OTHER

• National Center for Maternal and Child Health, Mongolia

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Mahidol University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Tippawan Pongcharoen, PhD · Mahidol U

Eligibility

Min Age

3 Months

Max Age

40 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-01-01

Primary Completion

2018-12-31

Completion

2020-01-01