Antenatal education and postnatal support strategies for improving rates of exclusive breast feeding: randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether antenatal breast feeding education alone or postnatal lactation support alone improves rates of exclusive breast feeding compared with routine hospital care.

Design

Randomised controlled trial.

Setting

A tertiary hospital in Singapore.

Participants

450 women with uncomplicated pregnancies.

Main outcome measures

Primary outcomes were rates of exclusive breast feeding at discharge from hospital and two weeks, six weeks, three months, and six months after delivery. Secondary outcomes were rates of any breast feeding.

Results

Compared with women who received routine care, women in the postnatal support group were more likely to breastfeed exclusively at two weeks (relative risk 1.82, 95% confidence interval 1.14 to 2.9

SUBMITTER: Su LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1989016 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature