Adolescent Mothers, Grandmothers, Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding

Conditions

Breastfeeding, Weaning

Keywords

breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding, lactation counseling, teenagers, complementary food, adolescent, caregivers

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether counseling sessions on breastfeeding for adolescent mothers and their grandmothers in the maternity ward and at home are effective in to improve the exclusive and total breastfeeding rates during the first six month, as well as the convenient timing of supplementary feeding introduction.

Detailed description

Despite the recognized value of exclusive breastfeeding during the first months of a child's life and efforts for promoting this practice, rates for this pattern of breastfeeding in Brazil are below those recommended by the World Health Organization(WHO), which advocates exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months. The last national survey about the prevalence of breastfeeding revealed a median duration of 10 months. However , the length of exclusive breastfeeding was only 23 days. A lot of studies identified maternal age as predictor of breastfeeding. In African, Asian, Latin American and the Pacific societies, older women, or grandmothers,traditionally have considerable influence on decisions related to maternal and child health at the household level. Considering all that, interventions intended to increase frequency of breastfeeding, particularly exclusive breastfeeding. However, there are few studies on this subject.

Cristiano Francisco da Silva, Leandro Meirelles Nunes, Renata Schwartz, Elsa Regina Justo Giugliani

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth2016-05-0316 citations

10.1186/s12884-016-0878-z

The Effect of a Pro-Breastfeeding and Healthy Complementary Feeding Intervention Targeting Adolescent Mothers and Grandmothers on Growth and Prevalence of Overweight of Preschool Children

Renata Schwartz, Álvaro Vigo, Luciana Dias de Oliveira, Elsa Regina Justo Giugliani

PLoS ONE2015-07-1031 citations

10.1371/journal.pone.0131884

Counselling sessions increased duration of exclusive breastfeeding: a randomized clinical trial with adolescent mothers and grandmothers.

Dias de Oliveira L, Justo Giugliani ER, Córdova do Espírito Santo L, Meirelles Nunes L.

2014-07-1731 citations

10.1186/1475-2891-13-73

Interventions

BEHAVIORALcounseling sessions

The intervention groups received counseling sessions about breastfeeding and complementary feeding at maternity ward and at home with 7,15,30,60 and 120 days.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

DOUBLE (Subject, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

FEMALE

Age

12 Years to 19 Years

Healthy volunteers

No

Inclusion criteria

* Adolescent mothers * Mothers living in the city of Porto Alegre * Healthy nontwin newborns with birth weight equal or greater than 2500g

Exclusion criteria

* Mothers living with mother-in-law * Mother-infant pairs that were unable to stay together due to a health concern in either the mother or infant * Mammaplasty reductive

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Frequency of exclusive and total breastfeeding	First year

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Pattern of complementary feeding	one year

Countries

Brazil

Outcome results

None listed