Physiotherapy in the Treatment of Breastfeeding Difficulties

NCT ID: NCT05843279

Last Updated: 2024-07-31

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

200 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-07-01

Study Completion Date

2023-11-01

Brief Summary

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The objective of this randomized, single-blind clinical trial is to compare the efficacy of two treatments (Myofunctional Therapy and breastfeeding sessions) in infants who have difficulty breastfeeding during the first week of life.

The main questions to be answered are:

* Is breastfeeding improved with this type of intervention?
* What type of intervention is better?
* After carrying out these interventions, does the baby need to undergo surgery if it presents a sublingual frenulum? Participants must be infants who are one week old and who have been diagnosed with ankyloglossia through the Hazelbaker Scale. They will be randomly distributed into the two intervention groups and after one month of treatment, they will be assessed again using the same scale.

The researchers will compare the results between these two groups in order to verify the best intervention.

Detailed Description

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Infants who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, respectively, were accepted to participate in the study. The randomization of the sample was performed by a statistician, who had no prior contact with either the infants or the parents. The online Randomizer (www.randomizer.org) program was used to randomly generate 200 sets of numbers, each containing two numbers ranging from 1 to 2 in random order. After signing the consent, a code was randomly chosen for each patient, thus ensuring that the 200 patients were equally distributed into two groups according to the group number of each code: group 1 (Myofunctional Therapy group) and group 2 (group sessions lactation).

Infants who met the inclusion criteria were referred to the rehabilitation and physiotherapy service. A physical therapist outside the study was in charge of evaluating the measurements of all infants during the first week of life through all the scales detailed below (pre-test). After randomly assigning the infants, another physiotherapist was responsible for applying the intervention once a week for 30 minutes for a period of 30 days. Once the intervention was finished, all the infants (both intervention groups) were reassessed by the physiotherapist outside the study using the same baseline scales (post-test).

Conditions

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Breastfeeding Ankyloglossia Lactation Disorders

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Myofunctional Therapy is performed in one group and a breastfeeding session is performed in another group.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

TRIPLE

Participants Investigators Outcome Assessors
A physiotherapist outside the study was in charge of carrying out the first evaluation in the first week of life of the infant. Another physiotherapist was in charge of applying the physiotherapy intervention. After completion of the intervention, all infants were reassessed by another physiotherapist outside the study.

Study Groups

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Myofunctional therapy

The intervention group receives myofunctional therapy sessions in which orofacial exercises are performed.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Myofunctional therapy

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

In one group, physiotherapy intervention is performed on the orofacial structures of the baby and in another group, the posture presented by the mother while breastfeeding her baby is corrected.

Breastfeeding session

In this group, a session is held in which the posture and attachment of the baby to the mother's chest is assessed and corrected.

Group Type OTHER

Myofunctional therapy

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

In one group, physiotherapy intervention is performed on the orofacial structures of the baby and in another group, the posture presented by the mother while breastfeeding her baby is corrected.

Interventions

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Myofunctional therapy

In one group, physiotherapy intervention is performed on the orofacial structures of the baby and in another group, the posture presented by the mother while breastfeeding her baby is corrected.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Other Intervention Names

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Breastfeeding session

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Full-term infants exclusively breastfed
* Born both by normal delivery and by cesarean section
* Who presented difficulty in breastfeeding

Exclusion Criteria

* Preterm newborns
* With low birth weight (less than 2,500 kg)
* Mothers with flat or inverted nipples
* Patients who did not wish and did not authorize to participate in the study.
Minimum Eligible Age

7 Days

Maximum Eligible Age

31 Days

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Universidad de Almeria

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Gemma María López Segura

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Raúl Romero Del Rey

Almería, Almeria, Spain

Site Status

Countries

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Spain

References

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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Reference Type RESULT
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Gonzalez Garrido MDP, Garcia-Munoz C, Rodriguez-Huguet M, Martin-Vega FJ, Gonzalez-Medina G, Vinolo-Gil MJ. Effectiveness of Myofunctional Therapy in Ankyloglossia: A Systematic Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Sep 28;19(19):12347. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191912347.

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Ferres-Amat E, Pastor-Vera T, Rodriguez-Alessi P, Ferres-Amat E, Mareque-Bueno J, Ferres-Padro E. The prevalence of ankyloglossia in 302 newborns with breastfeeding problems and sucking difficulties in Barcelona: a descriptive study. Eur J Paediatr Dent. 2017 Dec;18(4):319-325. doi: 10.23804/ejpd.2017.18.04.10.

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Ferres-Amat E, Pastor-Vera T, Rodriguez-Alessi P, Ferres-Amat E, Mareque-Bueno J, Ferres-Padro E. Management of Ankyloglossia and Breastfeeding Difficulties in the Newborn: Breastfeeding Sessions, Myofunctional Therapy, and Frenotomy. Case Rep Pediatr. 2016;2016:3010594. doi: 10.1155/2016/3010594. Epub 2016 Aug 30.

Reference Type RESULT
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Related Links

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https://www.who.int/es/

Recommendations on the duration of breastfeeding according to the World Health Organization (OMS)

Other Identifiers

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35/2022

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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