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Filter by:Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is critical for child survival, growth, and maternal health; however, over half of mothers in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Mobile health (mHealth) describes a range of wireless technologies and techniques that seek to increase patient access to and interaction with preventive health services. This study will develop and test the feasibility of an mHealth intervention to improve support counseling for breastfeeding at a large sub-county referral hospital in Naivasha, Kenya.
This study aims to improve maternal, neonatal and infant health outcomes through an integrated community-based intervention package in Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia.
The percentage of women breastfeeding their newborn babies is very low among minority populations such as African American women in Mississippi. There are good results with initiatives supporting the initiation of breastfeeding after delivery. However, the percentages of continuation of breastfeeding up to 3, 6 or 12 months are still very low in Mississippi. Therefore, this project is proposing to focus on community interventions including social and cultural components to promote and support continuation of breastfeeding. - The social component will include interventions to promote supportive environments in the workplace for lactating mothers, as well as promoting the use of mother's milk to feed infants in daycare centers. - The cultural component will focus on educating and raising awareness of the benefit of BF to prevent absenteeism at work, to reduce child illnesses, and to promote healthy child development. The cultural component will target the mother with her family and spouse/partner, employers, and daycare managers.
Purpose of Research: The purpose of this research is to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a mobile application-based breastfeeding education program. Research Hypotheses H1: Exclusive breastfeeding rate is higher for mothers in the experimental group than the mothers in the control group in the fourth postpartum week. H2: The mothers in the experimental group had higher scores on the Evaluation of Breastfeeding Problems in the fourth week after delivery than the mothers in the control group. H3: Exclusive breastfeeding rate is higher for the mothers in the experimental group than the mothers in the control group in the eighth postpartum week. H4: The mothers in the experimental group had higher scores on the Evaluation of Breastfeeding Problems at the eighth postpartum week than the mothers in the control group. In the first stage of the research, a mobile application-based breastfeeding education program was developed and piloted. In the second stage of the study, the mobile application-based breastfeeding education program was applied to the primiparous mothers in the experimental group for eight weeks, starting from the first day of postpartum.The control group received only routine health care. 617 / 5.000 Çeviri sonuçları Personal Information Form, Breastfeeding Evaluation Scale and Breastfeeding Problems Evaluation Scale were applied to the mothers in the Experimental and Control groups on the first postpartum day. - A mobile application was installed on the phones of the mothers in the experimental group and information was provided. The control group benefited only from routine nursing care. - Infants' Physical Development Monitoring Form, Breastfeeding Monitoring Form, Breastfeeding Problems Evaluation Scale will be applied to the mothers in the experimental and control groups in the fourth and eighth weeks postpartum. - Mobile Application Evaluation Form was also applied to the experimental group in the eighth week.
The Breastfeeding - a Good Start Together intervention study aims to increase the proportion of women who breastfeed for four and six months, and proportionately more in a group of women who are in risk of early breastfeeding cessation; and thus reduce social inequality of mother and infant health.
Breastfeeding plays a fundamental role in the health of girls and boys by providing adequate nutrition, promoting development and mainly preventing diseases. Different maternal factors such as education or obesity and perinatal factors such as the route of birth or skin-to-skin contact, among many others, can influence its onset, proper establishment and duration. Caesarean section and instrumental delivery are directly related to a delay in the early initiation of breastfeeding in newborns. In Mexico, the rate of caesarean sections is well above that recommended by the World Health Organization, in addition to being a country with very low rates of exclusive breastfeeding at 6 months of age of the newborn without having achieved the proposed objectives to improve it in recent years. Newborns who experience skin-to-skin contact with their mother develop behaviors such as crawling to the breast and more effective suckling with greater lactogenesis by the mother. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines skin-to-skin contact (SSC) as "direct, immediate and uninterrupted contact of the infant with the mother's skin" and promotes it because it is important for establishment of breastfeeding, neonatal and child survival and development. It has been seen that the ideal time to start this CPP is within the first 30 minutes of life of the newborn in any birth route, so it has been recommended that it be started in the recovery room or even in the operating room during birth by caesarean section in order to make a mark in the programming of the future physiology and behavior of the dyad. The foregoing leads us to ask ourselves the following research questions: Can we in our public hospitals in Mexico carry out the CPP procedure between mother and baby during cesarean births? And if so, will there be a difference in breastfeeding by Mexican women, performing skin-to-skin contact immediately even in the operating room between mother and baby in cesarean births versus if it is carried out after the surgical procedure?
Every year, 1 million women cease breastfeeding (BF) before 6 months, the minimum time required for optimal maternal well-being and infant's health, physical growth, and development. The highest rate of BF cessation occurs within 3 weeks after birth, with 30% of women ceasing BF due to acute breast and nipple pain (BNP). BNP is a complex and understudied biobehavioral phenomenon involving nociceptive signalling that stimulates multiple pain pathways. Women who experience BNP beyond BF initiation report lower BF self-efficacy a key predictor of BF at 6 months, increased maternal distress symptoms, and may differ across races contributing to differences in early BF cessation rates. The investigators developed and tested a 6-week nurse-led and participant-informed, Breastfeeding and Breast and Nipple Pain Self-Management (BSM) intervention guided by the Individual and Family Self-Management Theory. Aligned with the needs and preferences elicited from a diverse sample of BF participants, the investigators used a cloud-based platform, to deliver BF knowledge and skills, and provided support through nurse-led text-based communication to decrease BNP, increase BF self-efficacy, decrease burdensome face-to-face visits, and increase adaptive coping behaviors. Participants in the BSM intervention group reported significantly reduced BNP intensity at 1 and 2 weeks which predicted increased BF self-efficacy and decreased anxiety at 6 weeks. Based on these promising results, the investigators propose to examine the efficacy of the BSM intervention in an R56 RCT, Promoting Self-Management of Breast and Nipple Pain Using Technology (PROMPT) for Breastfeeding Women to decrease BNP intensity and interference and increase BF exclusivity. The study will reproduce and extend the pilot findings by exploring in a diverse population of BF participants, how participants' pain sensitivity affects BNP. The study will explore the moderating role of BNP, and maternal well-being symptoms of fatigue, depressive symptoms, anxiety, and sleep, pain, pain coping, and maternal self-efficacy, on BF exclusivity. Participants (N = 222) intending to breastfeed will be randomized to the BSM intervention or the attention control group with assessments performed at baseline, 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 weeks. Study results will advance knowledge on the BSM intervention, with direct implications for nurse-designed and led self-management interventions in clinical settings or health care systems.
The investigators will recruit 40 pregnant women living with HIV divided into 2 groups (n=20 intervention group, n=20 control group). The intervention group will receive personalized lactation support and monthly unconditional cash transfers (100USD/month) from approximately 30 weeks pregnancy to approximately 6-months postpartum. The control group will receive the current standard care.
Optimal breastfeeding practices are essential for child survival, growth, development, and for the health of mothers. Globally, optimal breastfeeding practices are still low and breastfeeding practices are not optimal in Ethiopia. Male partners have an important but often neglected role in the promotion of breastfeeding practices and currently, male partners are not targeted in breastfeeding education provided by health care providers. The effect of breastfeeding interventions delivered to male partners on optimal breastfeeding has not been studied in the Ethiopian context. It is important to investigate breastfeeding promotion education and support provided to male partners compared to the usual care effective in improving optimal breastfeeding practice in lactating mothers. Therefore, in this study cluster-randomized controlled trials will be conducted to evaluate the effect of breastfeeding education and support provided to male partners on optimal breastfeeding practice in Ethiopia.
Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), the third most abundant constituent of breastmilk, are known to have beneficial effects on infant immunity. Maternal genetic polymorphisms cause HMO variability. The FUT2 gene determines the secretor status, whereas the FUT3 gene is responsible for the expression of Lewis fucosyltransferase. Therefore, breastmilk can be classified to four groups according to the variation. To date, this variability has not been investigated in Indonesia. This study aims to evaluate the association between FUT2 gene polymorphism and 2'-Fucosyllactose (2'-FL) secretor phenotype. In addition, infant FUT2 gene polymorphism and short chain fatty acid (SCFA) profile from stool samples are also analysed.