Empowering New Mothers: Exploring the Effect of Breastfeeding Health Educational Program on Practices and Feeding Self-Efficacy of Primigravida in Saudi Arabia

May 16, 2024 updated by: Mahmoud Khedr, Alexandria University
Being pregnant causes a mother and her child to form a maternal tie, and the birth of the child fills the mother with an immense amount of love and happiness. Breastfeeding is how a mother and infant make their initial touch. Breastfeeding is a mother's priceless gift to her infant and nature's own method of nurturing a baby.

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

This study will be done to evaluate the primigravida mother's breastfeeding's knowledge, attitude and corrective technique through the implementation of an educational program and to ascertain the efficacy of such a program.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

70

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Primigravida mothers who regularly visit maternity hospitals at Hail and Bisha City.
  • Primigravida mothers during last three trimester and 1 month after delivery
  • No problems during pregnant and have a healthy baby
  • Primigravida mothers who are not contraindicated to breastfeeding

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Multigravida mothers and pregnant women during first and second trimester

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Study GROUP
Each primigravida in the study group during the last three trimesters will receive three sessions of knowledge, breast care, and breastfeeding technique after filling out a questionnaire (pretest). During 1 month from delivery, we will conduct a post-test with them (after 2 weeks and after 4 weeks) to explore the effect of breastfeeding health educational programs on practices and breastfeeding self-efficacy
Behavioral: Breastfeeding Health Educational Program
Breastfeeding is a mother's priceless gift to her infant and nature's own method of nurturing a baby. Therefore, this study will be conducted to evaluate the primigravida mother's breastfeeding's knowledge, attitude and corrective technique through the implementation of an educational program and to ascertain the efficacy of such a program.
Active Comparator: Control group
The control group was selected first and received a brochure leaflet delivered by the researcher. They didn't receive the health educational program
Behavioral: Breastfeeding Health Educational Program
Breastfeeding is a mother's priceless gift to her infant and nature's own method of nurturing a baby. Therefore, this study will be conducted to evaluate the primigravida mother's breastfeeding's knowledge, attitude and corrective technique through the implementation of an educational program and to ascertain the efficacy of such a program.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
A preformatted structured questionnaire
Time Frame: 3 months
It was developed by Tella et al. (2016) and comprised 12 questions that were assessed in various areas under various breastfeeding techniques practice.
3 months
Self-Efficacy Scale - Short-Form (BSES-SF)
Time Frame: 3 months
It was adopted (Dennis, 2003) that assess maternal self-efficacy for breastfeeding throughout all stages of the study. The BSES-SF is a Likert scale with 14 items organized into two domains, namely: technical and intrapersonal thoughts.
3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Alexandria University

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

March 20, 2024

Primary Completion (Estimated)

July 15, 2024

Study Completion (Estimated)

August 10, 2024

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

May 16, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 16, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

May 21, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

May 21, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 16, 2024

Last Verified

May 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • H-2024-126

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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