Father Infant Feeding Initiative: Increasing breastfeeding initiation and duration via education and social support for fathers.

Father Infant Feeding Iniative, breastfeeding, initiation and duration of breastfeeding.

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12609000667213

Acronym

FIFI

Enrollment

1400

Registered

2009-08-06

Start date

2008-09-15

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

Increase the influence of fathers on infant feeding practices including initiation and duration of breastfeeding

Interventions

Male subjects attend the standard antenatal education classes plus an additional one hour class on breastfeeding and the role of fathers. This session is delivered in hospital by trained male facilitators to fathers allocated to the intervention group, social support and postnatal education (weekly via telephone, mail or email to week 6) screening (week 6 for postnatal depression)

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Prevention

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

15 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

fathers are intending to be involved in the raising of their baby and are contactable by phone, email or mail, mothers are intending to breastfeed, both parents can read English.

Exclusion criteria

not intending to breastfeed, not intending to be involved in the care of the baby, uncontactable, not able to read English

Outcome results