None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Health of mothers and infants would improve if breastfeeding rates were closer to the recommendations. Mothers' choices about how to feed their babies depend on information initially, motivation continually, and in the longer term, support. Support is most effective when provided by those skilled in breastfeeding management and good communication. This study proposes that proactive ongoing support from a known and trained primary health professional, namely the General Practice Nurse, using a motivational interviewing approach, can improve breastfeeding duration and delay introduction of solids or other foods.
Interventions
Use of Conversation Tool by Practice Nurse, to guide structured motivational interaction with breastfeeding mother at each routine preventive health visits for child immunisation at 2, 4 and 6 months of age. Routine visits take 10-30 minutes and the intervention may take 5-20 minutes dependent on pragmatic factors and mothers' issues, with the total visit anticipated to last 15 - 30 minutes. The intervention will be trialled over a period of 18 months.
Sponsors
University of New South Wales
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Subject, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Breastfeeding at 8 weeks postpartum; planning to attend participating general practice for infant care
Exclusion criteria
Unable to hold a conversation in English (primary language is other than English)
Outcome results
None listed