None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Breastfeeding is recognised as the optimal method for feeding infants with health gains made by reducing infectious diseases in infancy; and chronic diseases, including obesity, in childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Despite this, exclusivity and duration in developed countries remains resistant to improvement. The objectives of this research were to test if an automated mobile phone text messaging intervention, delivering one text message a week, could increase “any” breastfeeding rates and improve breastfeeding self-efficacy and coping.
Interventions
This was a proof of concept and not a randomised trial. A non-concurrent, prospective, comparison trial was conducted where we recruited 120 and 114 women into intervention and comparison groups respectively. Women in the intervention group received MumBubConnect, a text messaging service with automated responses delivered once a week for 8 weeks. Breastfeeding practice, self-efficacy, perceived social support and coping strategies were all observed and measured at baseline and at week nine. Wom
This was a proof of concept and not a randomised trial. A non-concurrent, prospective, comparison trial was conducted where we recruited 120 and 114 women into intervention and comparison groups respectively. Women in the intervention group received MumBubConnect, a text messaging service with automated responses delivered once a week for 8 weeks. Breastfeeding practice, self-efficacy, perceived social support and coping strategies were all observed and measured at baseline and at week nine. Women were sent a reminder text if they had not responded, women not responding to more than two text messages were phoned. The content of the text messages included an enquiry text to which the women responded with key words and received back information to help them problem solve with a helpline number or an affirmation. The messages were based around common problems identified in the literature and were developed through focus groups with women with infants and young children.
Sponsors
Queensland University of Technology
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Intervention model
Other
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Women were eligible to participate if they were: over eighteen years of age; had an infant less than three months of age; were currently doing any breastfeeding ; did not have a diagnosed mental illness; and used a mobile phone (of any type).
Exclusion criteria
Less than 18 years of age Diagnosed mental illness No mobile phone
Outcome results
None listed