Breastfeeding - a Good Start Together

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Breastfeeding support: The core of the intervention is a trustful relation between the health visitor and the families based on principles of needs based communication. Health visitors will enhance parents' action competence based on breastfeeding self-efficacy, focusing on parents' wishes and needs. The breastfeeding support includes four main messages: joint parenting task, skin-to-skin contact, frequent breastfeeding, and good positioning. Training of health visitors includes e-learning and a two-day course with physical attendance. Supportive materials are developed including communicative support tools and a web-page providing support and knowledge when the health visitor is off hours. All families in intervention sites accepting the health visitor program will receive the improved breastfeeding support. Families in the high-risk group are offered an intensified intervention with close follow-up by telephone in planned time-intervals, thus a higher dose of the intervention.

Study summary

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.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Maternal self-report of breastfeeding status (full vs not full) — Four months post partum
  Self-reported breastfeeding measured in questionnaires by the mothers and health visitors' record of breastfeeding status. Full breastfeeding is conceptualized as exclusive breastmilk-feeding after discharge from the hospital. In Denmark, the concept allows for a supplement to mother's milk of water and the like and / or a maximum of one meal with infant formula per week.

Trial sites (21)

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