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NCT Number: NCT03973476

Effectiveness of Midwife Phone Support With the to Reduce the Early Abandonment of Breastfeeding

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of telephone support of the reference midwife, in relation to the abandonment of breastfeeding of primiparous mothers and to identify, both the risk factors and the protective factors for the early abandonment of breastfeeding.

Material and Method Randomized parallel controlled clinical trial.

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Key information

Conditions

Breastfeeding Behavior Breast Feeding Feeding Behavior

Age range

18 year–40 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

About this study

Sample: 220 primiparous mothers with access, during the 8 weeks postpartum, to a mobile phone to contact the midwife randomization of 110 mothers to the experimental group and 110 to the control group. The mothers of the experimental group will be offered the mobile phone number to contact their midwife after delivery. The mothers of the control group will receive the usual attention of the portfolio of services that includes the spontaneous visit in the center, the telephone call in the center, the home visit and the health education groups.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Primiparians who carry out the follow-up of pregnancy for the midwife
  • The pregnant woman is of low risk
  • Possibility of the mother to make calls to the mobile phone.
  • The pregnant woman wishes to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

  • Maternal or fetal pathology that can condition maternal breastfeeding.
  • idiomatic barrier.
  • Prematurity.
  • Baby with weight <2,500 gr. at birth
  • Home delivery during the puerperium

Treatment and study plan

Phone care support by midwife

Other

Mothers can call the midwife's telephone every working day from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Primary outcomes

  1. Percentage of participants who breast-feed at 3 months of intervention

    Time frame: 3 months

    Women who still breastfeed 3 months after the intervention with respect to the control arm

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

Other

Registry information

Acronym: STAM

Important dates

Study start
2012
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2017
First posted
Jun 4, 2019
Registry last updated
Jun 4, 2019

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