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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
2032 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2009-08-31
2013-08-31
Brief Summary
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The purpose of the study
The study seeks to answer the following research questions:
* What effect does the process of being certified as a BFCHS have on the proportion of mothers who exclusively breastfeed their children for 5 months?
* What effect does the process of being certified as a BFCHS have on the proportion of mothers who exclusively breastfeed for 4 months?
* What effect does the certification process have on the proportion of mothers who breastfeed at 11 months of age?
* What effect does the certification process have on the differences in breastfeeding due to social inequality?
* What effect does the certification process have on the mothers impression of the quality of the well-baby clinics lactation counseling?
* What effect does the certification process have on mothers satisfaction with the breastfeeding experience?
* What effect does the certification process have on perceived pressure to breastfeed? Methods Cluster randomized controlled study Sampling The survey unit, cluster, will be the community health services. All community health services in six counties in Norway will be invited to participate.
Inclusion criteria: Norwegian speaking mothers who have 5 month and 11 month old children.
Data collection Respondents are identified through the National Population Register (DSF). The data collection takes place using a postal questionnaire.
Baseline: Data collection before the intervention is implemented to assess breastfeeding prevalence and distribution of covariates in the two study arms.
Post-survey: The post-survey to assess the effect, will take place about two years after baseline when the community health services have been certified.
Sample size It is expected that the project could increase the breastfeeding prevalence with 5 percentage points. This assumption is the basis for the sample size. The initial aim is to recruit about 50 well-baby clinics.
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Detailed Description
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Almost all women produce breast milk, but the act of breastfeeding is a complicated interaction between mother and child and is affected by a number of factors. A large number of mothers have breastfeeding difficulties, and a significant number stop before they had intended to. If women were given qualified help it is possible that many of these problems could have been prevented or treated. In the Norwegian subsidiary study to The WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study, where mothers received qualified breastfeeding instruction, 86% of children were exclusively breastfed at the 4 month stage as compared with the norm of 44%.
Today mothers are discharged earlier from hospital than ever before. Many of these women have not managed to properly establish breastfeeding. Due to this, many problems which were previously discovered in the maternity ward are now relegated to the primary health care services.
The disparity in breastfeeding between different socioeconomic groups in Norway primarily follows the same pattern as that found in health generally.For example, the chance that a mother with higher education will be breastfeeding her child at the age of 6 months is twice as high compared to a mother with only primary school education. Improving health service access to the entire population would contribute to advancing the health and health promoting behavior in those groups with the poorest prospects.
The National Resource Centre for Breastfeeding (NRCB) is cooperating with Norwegian Public Health Nurses Association and the Norwegian Directorate of Health in the initiative Baby-Friendly Community Health Services (BFCHS). The purpose of this initiative is to improve the quality of breastfeeding advice at Norwegian community health services.
While WHO has developed an international standard for breastfeeding counseling for maternity wards, there is no similar standard for primary care services as yet.
A newly updated Cochrane-overview about the effect of offering support to breastfeeding mothers identified 16 studies which assessed the effect of support from health workers. The studies showed a small effect on all breastfeeding at the four month stage, but could not show any difference at other stages. An American survey identified 38 randomized controlled studies on the effect of initiatives in primary care services to promote breastfeeding, all from industrialized countries.This review indicates that initiatives to increase the competency of health workers can have a positive effect on the prevalence of breastfeeding.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Lactation counseling
Intervention arm: The mother and child health centres will implement The Baby-Friendly Initiative to improve their lactation counseling.
Other Names: The Baby Friendly Community Health Service
Lactation counseling
The Baby-Friendly Community Health Service intervention to improve quality of lactation counseling.
Standard care
The comparison group was mother and child health centres which continued offering standard care.
Standard care
Child Health Services offered standard care
Interventions
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Lactation counseling
The Baby-Friendly Community Health Service intervention to improve quality of lactation counseling.
Standard care
Child Health Services offered standard care
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Mothers who are able to understand Norwegian.
Exclusion Criteria
* Mothers with infants below five months and above twelve months age.
5 Months
13 Months
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Oslo University Hospital
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Anne Berug
director
Principal Investigators
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Beate F Loland, Md PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Locations
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Rikshospitalet HF
Oslo, , Norway
Countries
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References
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Baerug A, Laake P, Loland BF, Tylleskar T, Tufte E, Fretheim A. Explaining socioeconomic inequalities in exclusive breast feeding in Norway. Arch Dis Child. 2017 Aug;102(8):708-714. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2016-312038. Epub 2017 Feb 24.
Other Identifiers
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S-09277c2009/5783
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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