None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
To investigate if an processoriented training in support during childbirth and breast feeding, for health professionals would improve supportive attitudes among professionals which could have a positive influence for mothers experience of support and mothers feelings for and relation to her baby.
Interventions
An intervention was conducted through a process-oriented program on parental support and breastfeeding counseling for midwives and postnatal nurses from the antenatal and child health centers in the study area. The training program included evidence-based methods to parental support and breastfeeding counseling. The learning methods were based on lectures and collegial discussions on professional stance, reflective processes, problem-solving processes, and practical skills in relation to breastf
An intervention was conducted through a process-oriented program on parental support and breastfeeding counseling for midwives and postnatal nurses from the antenatal and child health centers in the study area. The training program included evidence-based methods to parental support and breastfeeding counseling. The learning methods were based on lectures and collegial discussions on professional stance, reflective processes, problem-solving processes, and practical skills in relation to breastfeeding. In all seven lectures and seminars were held during the training period. Between the meetings each participant wrote a diary with personal reflections on the issues that were discussed in the lectures. The training program was carried out from September 1999 through March 2000.
Sponsors
School of Life Sciences
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Other
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
0 to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Eligible participants for this study were Swedish-speaking, first-time mothers who gave birth to a singleton, healthy infant at term, and had received care from healthcare professionals at either the intervention site or the control site.
Exclusion criteria
Mothers who gave birth to children with life-threatening diseases or malformations were excluded.
Outcome results
None listed