Breast for Success: A Family-Centered Intervention in Support of Breastfeeding Among High-risk Low-income Mothers
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Purpose
Breast for Success is a new direct service program focused on overcoming barriers to breastfeeding for low-income inner-city mothers by use of a culturally competent and home-based educational and support intervention. Key project components include a new Enhanced Breastfeeding Curriculum with brief engaging health literacy focused modules, and two innovative support plans, the Breastfeeding Doula and Father Support Programs. The objective is to increase breastfeeding rates for high-risk inner-city mothers.
Research Questions to evaluate project feasibility and effectiveness are:
- Were all aspects of the Curriculum and Doula and Father Support Programs implemented?
- Is there an increase in the rate of any breastfeeding at 1 month postpartum for all mothers?
- Is there a difference in the rate of any breastfeeding at 1 month postpartum between interventions (Curriculum only, Curriculum+Doula Support, Curriculum+Father Support)?
- What are exclusive breastfeeding rates at 1, 3 and 6 months for all mothers?
| Condition | Intervention |
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Breastfeeding |
Behavioral: Enhanced Curriculum Behavioral: Enhanced Curriculum+Breastfeeding Doula Behavioral: Enhanced Curriculum+Father Support Program |
| Study Type: | Interventional |
| Study Design: | Allocation: Non-Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label |
| Official Title: | Breast for Success: A Family-Centered Intervention in Support of Breastfeeding Among High-risk Low-income Mothers in Cleveland |
- Program feasibility [ Time Frame: at 12 months from program start ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Measure program feasibility using work logs, pre/post knowledge and satisfaction questionnaires, and attendance logs.
- Program Feasibility [ Time Frame: at 24 months from program start ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Measure program feasibility using work logs, pre/post knowledge and satisfaction questionnaires, and attendance logs.
- Breastfeeding rate [ Time Frame: measure BF initiation rate ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Measure rate of any breastfeeding (breastfeeding initiation) in the hospital. We will also compare this rate between the 3 intervention groups.
- Breastfeeding rate [ Time Frame: at one month postpartum ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Measure rate of breastfeeding (rate of any breastfeeding is main measure, also measure rate of exclusive breastfeeding) at one month postpartum. Will compare rate of any breastfeeding one month postpartum to historical data, and will compare rates of any breastfeeding at one month postpartum between intervention groups.
- Breastfeeding rate [ Time Frame: at 3 months postpartum ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Measure rates of any and exclusive breastfeeding at 3 months postpartum.
- Breastfeeding Rate [ Time Frame: at 6 months postpartum ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Measure breastfeeding rate (any and exclusive) at 6 months postpartum.
| Estimated Enrollment: | 500 |
| Study Start Date: | June 2011 |
| Estimated Study Completion Date: | November 2013 |
| Estimated Primary Completion Date: | May 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
| Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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Active Comparator: Enhanced Curriculum
New Enhanced Breastfeeding Curriculum with 11 brief modules
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Behavioral: Enhanced Curriculum
Brief health literacy focused modules on breastfeeding delivered in the home by Community Health Workers
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Active Comparator: Enhanced Curriculum+Breastfeeding Doula
Enhanced Curriculum + mother selects a support person to learn about breastfeeding with her and support her postpartum ("breastfeeding doula")
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Behavioral: Enhanced Curriculum+Breastfeeding Doula
In the Doula Program, the Community Health Worker and mother will identify a support person (e.g. grandma, father, friend) who commits to learning about breastfeeding with the mother at home visits, and then helps her with breastfeeding postpartum.
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Active Comparator: Enhanced Curriculum+Father Support Program
Enhanced Curriculum+ mother provides father-friendly information about breastfeeding to her partner plus an invitation to an educational group for fathers
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Behavioral: Enhanced Curriculum+Father Support Program
In the Father Support Program, mothers will give their partners father-friendly breastfeeding information and an invitation to a 3-week breastfeeding education group for fathers that includes a resource specialist or resource information for child support, re-entry and job services.
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Detailed Description:
Low rates of breastfeeding among low-income inner-city mothers represent a challenging health disparity that adversely impacts child and maternal health. The overall objective of Breast for Success is to increase the rates of breastfeeding initiation, continuation and exclusivity among high-risk mothers in the City of Cleveland via home-based culturally appropriate interventions. Key project components include a new Curriculum with brief engaging modules utilizing games, teach-reteach strategies, and interactive learning to address specific barriers identified in focus groups (e.g. pain, low milk supply, breast "myths"), and two innovative support components, the Breastfeeding Doula and Father Support Programs. Breast for Success was developed in collaboration with and will be disseminated in partnership with the Cleveland Department of Public Health MomsFirst initiative, which delivers comprehensive services including twice-monthly Community Health Worker home visits prenatally through 2 years postpartum to 500 women annually. The investigators will measure program success via participation logs, satisfaction questionnaires and breastfeeding rates at 1, 3 and 6 months postpartum.
Eligibility| Ages Eligible for Study: | 14 Years and older |
| Genders Eligible for Study: | Female |
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- pregnant woman enrolled in MomsFirst Program of Greater Cleveland
Exclusion Criteria:
- incarceration
Other study populations include the Community Health Workers, the doulas and the fathers of the study mothers.
Contacts and Locations| Contact: Lydia M Furman, MD | 216-844-8260 | Lydia.Furman@uhhospitals.org |
| United States, Ohio | |
| MomsFirst | Recruiting |
| Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44114 | |
| Contact: Lydia Furman, MD 216-844-8260 lydia.furman@uhhospitals.org | |
| Principal Investigator: | Lydia M Furman, MD | University Hospitals of Cleveland Case Medical Center |
More Information
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| Responsible Party: | Lydia Furman, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University Hospitals of Cleveland |
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01272661 History of Changes |
| Other Study ID Numbers: | BFS-1 |
| Study First Received: | December 27, 2010 |
| Last Updated: | December 26, 2012 |
| Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Keywords provided by University Hospitals of Cleveland:
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breastfeeding low-income high-risk African-American health disparity |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 23, 2013