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Telephone Support Intervention to Improve Breastfeeding Rates in Low-Income Women
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Telephone Support Intervention to Improve Breastfeeding for Breastfeeding. Completed, enrolled 339 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
This randomized controlled trial will evaluate an innovative telephone-based breastfeeding education and promotion intervention that will be implemented in a low-income, predominately Latina population. The trial will assess the impact of the intervention on duration of breastfeeding and exclusivity of breastfeeding at 1, 2, 3 and 6 months post-partum.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The intervention will consist of outreach telephone calls daily by bilingual trained nursing staff for the first 2 weeks postpartum using the scripted protocols developed for this program. Both groups will receive a small bag with reading materials, illustrations of breastfeeding positions and latch, hand breast pump, and lanolin cream. The intervention nurse will ask the mothers on their initial intake call for the best time to call each day to minimize time needed to reach the mother.