Adolescent Mothers, Grandmothers, Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding

Breastfeeding Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effect of Intervention About Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding in Adolescent Mothers and Their Grandmothers

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00910377
• Other study ID #: 02-389
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 28, 2009
• Last updated: May 28, 2009
• Start date: May 2006
• Est. completion date: January 2009

Study information

• Verified date: May 2009
• Source: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Brazil: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether counseling sessions on breastfeeding for adolescent mothers and their grandmothers in the maternity ward and at home are effective in to improve the exclusive and total breastfeeding rates during the first six month, as well as the convenient timing of supplementary feeding introduction.

Description:

Despite the recognized value of exclusive breastfeeding during the first months of a child's life and efforts for promoting this practice, rates for this pattern of breastfeeding in Brazil are below those recommended by the World Health Organization(WHO), which advocates exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months. The last national survey about the prevalence of breastfeeding revealed a median duration of 10 months. However , the length of exclusive breastfeeding was only 23 days.

A lot of studies identified maternal age as predictor of breastfeeding. In African, Asian, Latin American and the Pacific societies, older women, or grandmothers,traditionally have considerable influence on decisions related to maternal and child health at the household level.

Considering all that, interventions intended to increase frequency of breastfeeding, particularly exclusive breastfeeding. However, there are few studies on this subject.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 344
• Est. completion date: January 2009
• Est. primary completion date: August 2008
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 12 Years to 19 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adolescent mothers

• Mothers living in the city of Porto Alegre

• Healthy nontwin newborns with birth weight equal or greater than 2500g

Exclusion Criteria:

• Mothers living with mother-in-law

• Mother-infant pairs that were unable to stay together due to a health concern in either the mother or infant

• Mammaplasty reductive

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Breastfeeding
• Weaning

Intervention

Behavioral:
• counseling sessions
The intervention groups received counseling sessions about breastfeeding and complementary feeding at maternity ward and at home with 7,15,30,60 and 120 days.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Brazil	Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre	Porto Alegre	Rio Grande do Sul

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Frequency of exclusive and total breastfeeding		First year	Yes
Secondary	Pattern of complementary feeding		one year	Yes