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The Effect of Motivational Interviewing-Based Breastfeeding Education on Breastfeeding Motivation and Self-Efficacy

The Effect of Motivational Interviewing-Based Breastfeeding Education Given to Mothers With Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit on Breastfeeding Motivation and Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06623292
Enrollment
48
Registered
2024-10-02
Start date
2024-10-15
Completion date
2025-02-15
Last updated
2025-04-27

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Conditions

Breastfeeding, Motivation, Self Efficacy

Keywords

Breastfeeding motivation, Breastfeeding self-efficacy, Motivational interview

Brief summary

This study is being conducted to examine the effect of a motivational interviewing-based breastfeeding education intervention provided to mothers whose infants are hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit on the mothers' breastfeeding motivation and breastfeeding self-efficacy.

Detailed description

Midwives and nurses working in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are in a unique position to support the breastfeeding process and breastfeeding self-efficacy of mothers whose babies are hospitalized in the NICU. Health care professionals can use a variety of methods to support mothers' breastfeeding self-efficacy and encourage breastfeeding. Individualized interventions, breastfeeding education, and motivational interviewing are some of them. Motivational interviewing is basically a client-centered psychosocial intervention that helps individuals discover and resolve ambivalent feelings about health behaviors, learn new skills, and improve existing skills. In the breastfeeding process, the mother's motivation and positive intention are shown to be important indicators of breastfeeding continuation. Health education about breastfeeding provided by neonatal intensive care nurses to mothers whose babies are hospitalized in the NICU for various reasons is one of the important initiatives of nurses. The contribution of health education planned with effective educational techniques for both mother and baby is undoubtedly very valuable. However, one of the important variables that should not be forgotten in the success of this education provided by the nurse is motivation, which also affects the self-efficacy of mothers regarding breastfeeding. In order to ensure the readiness of mothers to be educated about the breastfeeding process and breastfeeding of the infant hospitalized in the NICU, it would be appropriate to support the health education planned for mothers whose infants are hospitalized in the NICU with a motivational interviewing intervention. Based on this information, the planned research will examine the effect of motivational interviewing-based breastfeeding education provided to mothers whose infants are hospitalized in the NICU on mothers' breastfeeding motivation and breastfeeding self-efficacy.

Interventions

This program includes breastfeeding motivational interviewing consisting of a total of 4 sessions and breastfeeding education consisting of one session.

Sponsors

Istanbul Medeniyet University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Outcomes Assessor)

Intervention model description

Participants will be assigned to experimental and control groups using block randomization method. Randomization of mothers will be done according to maternal age and number of births. Maternal age (19-25 years and 26 years and older) and number of births (primiparous and multiparous) variables will be used for block randomization. In order to reach the sample size calculated in the study, strata will be repeated six times (2X2X6) and 24 mothers will be included in each group.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
19 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* A baby born at 38-42 weeks gestational week admitted to the NICU, * Who started breastfeeding her baby in the NICU, * Literate in Turkish, * Open to communication and cooperation, * Volunteered to participate in the study, * Willing to breastfeed your baby, * Have a smart phone and internet connection, * Mothers who scored 60 or less on the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale in the pretest

Exclusion criteria

* Any chronic illness and pregnancy complications, * A condition that prevents breastfeeding, * The mother has a diagnosed psychiatric illness, * Mothers with a history of substance abuse. * The presence of an obstacle to oral feeding and sucking in the infant, * The baby has genetic, congenital anomalies, neurological, cardiac and metabolic diseases, * The baby has undergone surgery.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale-Short FormOn the first day of the baby's admission to the NICU (pretest), at discharge, 15 days after discharge, one month after dischargeThe scale is 5-point Likert type. The items of the scale are scored as 1= I am never sure and 5 = I am always sure. All items of the scale are positive. The lowest score is 14 and the highest score is 70. An increase in scale scores indicates an increase in breastfeeding self-efficacy.
Breastfeeding Motivation ScaleOn the first day of the baby's admission to the NICU (pretest), at discharge, 15 days after discharge, one month after dischargeThe scale has a 4-point Likert-type scale scoring system. Each item is scored between 1=Strongly Disagree and 4=Strongly Agree. The score of the sub-dimensions is calculated by averaging the scale sub-dimension scores \[136\]. As the score obtained from the sub-dimension of the scale increases, the motivation representing the sub-dimension also increases.

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026