Breastfeeding Clinical Trial
Official title:
Effect of Breastfeeding Education and Support Provided to Male Partners on Optimal Breastfeeding Practice in Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial
Verified date | November 2023 |
Source | Jimma University |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
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.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 408 |
Est. completion date | October 30, 2023 |
Est. primary completion date | October 25, 2023 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 15 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Male partner and mother being in the third trimester of pregnancy - Male partner and Healthy mother with no underlying disease. - Male partner and Healthy mother with no pregnancy complication. - Male partner who live with their wives at home or maintain regular communication with them. - Partners capable of giving informed consent - Partners living in the selected cluster with no plans to move away during the intervention period Exclusion Criteria: - Mother who experienced a pregnancy loss (miscarriage, still birth, neonatal death) during the follow up period - Mother had serious medical problems - Couples who divorced or separated or migrated out of the study area during the intervention - Mother with twins birth - Infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units at birth |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Ethiopia | Hadiya Zone | Hawassa | Southern Nations, Nationalities, And Peoples' Region |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Jimma University | Nestlé Foundation |
Ethiopia,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Optimal breastfeeding practice | Mothers will be asked about infant breastfeeding practice includes early initiation of breastfeeding, breastfeeding frequently (24-h recall), exclusive breastfeeding (24-h recall), intended duration of breastfeeding, pre-lacteal feeding, and feeding colostrum. The infant breastfeeding practice scores will be summed to give a total score that could range between 0 and 6. The infant breastfeeding practice scores will be then classified as Poor (0-2), Medium (3-4), or Good (5-6). When the study participants have scored the highest tertiles (good) of infant breastfeeding practice scores will be considered as optimal breastfeeding practices. | at 6 months | |
Secondary | Paternal knowledge, attitude and Supportive practice on optimal breastfeeding | Paternal knowledge towards optimal breastfeeding practice will be measured using the breastfeeding knowledge questionnaire after validating it. Paternal attitude towards optimal breastfeeding will be measured using the Iowa Infant Feeding Attitude Scale after validating it. The total score will be calculated out of 85, with a minimum of 17 and a maximum of 85. This scale will help to identify the attitude of the male partner for capturing the favourable attitude (above the mean score) and unfavourable attitude (below the mean score) towards breastfeeding. The supportive practice of male partners in optimal breastfeeding practice will be measured by using a questionnaire which will be coded into Yes or No responses and one mark will be awarded for every correct response (yes), zero will be awarded for every incorrect response (no).Hence, the total number of marks in the supportive practice ranged from 0 to 8. | Baseline and at month 6 | |
Secondary | Maternal breastfeeding self-efficacy | Maternal Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy refers to a mother's confidence in her ability to breastfeed her infant and it will be measured using the Breastfeeding Self Efficacy Scale-Short Form developed to assess breastfeeding self-efficacy during postnatal period, a 14-item, self-report instrument and scored in 5-point Likert-type scale.Items are presented positively and summed to produce a total score ranging from 14 to 70, with higher scores indicating higher levels of breastfeeding self-efficacy. | Baseline and at month 6 | |
Secondary | Prevalence of child morbidity | Prevalence of child morbidity will be measured based on three morbidities such as diarrhea, fever and acute respiratory illnesses (ARIs). Children with at-least one of the three morbidity during intervention period will be considered | at 6 | |
Secondary | Maternal Perceptions on male partners' breastfeeding Support | Male partners' support for breastfeeding will be defined as the physical, emotional and psychosocial support the mother receives from her husband during breastfeeding. Maternal perceptions on husbands' breastfeeding Support will be measured by Postpartum Partner Support Scale, a 25-item self-report instrument designed to assess partner postpartum perceptions of support. Items are rated on a 4-point scale to produce a summative score ranging from 25 to 100, with higher scores indicating higher levels of maternal Perceptions on postpartum-specific partner support. | Baseline and at month 6 |
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