Evaluation of Health Professional Learners' Competence in Newborn Positioning and Attachment Following a Standardized Patient-led Lactation Skills Workshop

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

50 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-01-28

Study Completion Date

2021-06-01

Brief Summary

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Evaluating newborn positioning and attachment is a key skill for maternal-child healthcare providers. Trainees have limited opportunities to practice this skill in their clinical rotations due to a lack of access to lactating patients. Thus, positioning and attachment training is traditionally conducted through passive modalities, primarily videos.

Investigators aim to evaluate the impact of an interactive breastfeeding skills workshop using a baby doll on health professional learners' ability to identify effective and ineffective positioning and attachment at the breast.

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Detailed Description

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Faculty at the University of Michigan School of Public Health (UM-SPH), Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHUSON), and Michigan State University (MSU) are collaborating with LiquidGoldConcept (LGC), a company focusing on simulation-based training in maternal-child care, to evaluate the impact of high-fidelity simulation on health professional learner outcomes. For the Phase I SBIR, LGC is developing a high-fidelity newborn simulator for healthcare professional education in clinical lactation.

Evaluating newborn positioning and attachment is a key skill for maternal-child healthcare providers. Trainees have limited opportunities to practice this skill in their clinical rotations due to a lack of access to lactating patients. Thus, positioning and attachment training is traditionally conducted through passive modalities, primarily videos.

Investigators aim to evaluate the impact of an interactive breastfeeding skills workshop using a baby doll on health professional learners' ability to identify effective and ineffective positioning and attachment at the breast.

Conditions

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Breastfeeding Patient Simulation

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Participants will be cluster randomized to complete the standardized-patient led breastfeeding skills workshop with one of the baby dolls.

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

TRIPLE

Participants Investigators Outcome Assessors

Standardized patients leading the workshop will know which baby doll they are using in the workshop. Participants will not know whether or not they are receiving "treatment" and investigators and data analysts will be blinded to the treatment.

Study Groups

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Baby doll with user remote controlled jaw

In this arm, standardized patients will use the Newborn Oral Assessment and Latch Simulator (NORALSim) to demonstrate and teach newborn positioning and attachment in the breastfeeding skills workshop.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Breastfeeding Skills Workshop

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants will complete the standardized patient-led breastfeeding skills workshop where they will learn breast massage techniques to alleviate plugged ducts and engorgement, hand expression of breast milk, effective breast pump use, and newborn positioning and attachment.

Baby doll with hand controlled jaw

In this arm, standardized patients will use a cloth baby doll with a puppet-style mouth to demonstrate and teach newborn positioning and attachment in the breastfeeding skills workshop.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Breastfeeding Skills Workshop

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants will complete the standardized patient-led breastfeeding skills workshop where they will learn breast massage techniques to alleviate plugged ducts and engorgement, hand expression of breast milk, effective breast pump use, and newborn positioning and attachment.

Interventions

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Breastfeeding Skills Workshop

Participants will complete the standardized patient-led breastfeeding skills workshop where they will learn breast massage techniques to alleviate plugged ducts and engorgement, hand expression of breast milk, effective breast pump use, and newborn positioning and attachment.

Intervention Type OTHER