None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Breastfeeding has many benefits for mothers and babies, but although many women in Victoria start breastfeeding, many stop sooner than they had planned. Telephone support from another mother with breastfeeding experience has been found to increase breastfeeding in other countries, but we don’t know whether this approach would work here in Australia. The aim of the project is to find out whether providing breastfeeding support by telephone could increase the percentage of women breastfeeding for at least six months.
Interventions
Proactive telephone support provided by another mother with breastfeeding experience, in the early postnatal period i.e. weekly calls of varying duration (dependent upon need)for up to 12 weeks after birth. the volunteer mother providing support will have have had some training provided by the Australian Breastfeeding Association and be provided with ongoing support form the Peer Volunteer coordinator
Sponsors
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
English speaking Mother having her first live baby Breastfeeding or intending to breastfeed Singleton Giving birth in a public hospital
Exclusion criteria
Very ill women. Women who do not have the capacity to consent, including women who are highly dependent on medical care, and those with an intellectual or mental impairment to the extent that they could not provide informed consent.Mother of babies born prematurely or babies remaining in hospital after the mother's discharge after birth. Women with antenatal membership of the Australian Breastfeeding Association
Outcome results
None listed