Effect of a pro-breastfeeding intervention on the maintenance of breastfeeding for 2 years or more: randomized clinical trial with adolescent mothers and grandmothers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Being an adolescent mother and cohabiting with the maternal grandmother have been shown to be risk factors for a shorter breastfeeding duration. The objective of this study was to assess whether the positive effects of a pro-breastfeeding intervention aimed at adolescent mothers and maternal grandmothers on the prevalence of breastfeeding observed in the first year of life were maintained at 2 years of age.

Methods

This study is the continuation of a randomized clinical trial initiated in 2006 involving 323 adolescent mothers, their newborns and maternal grandmothers when cohabiting. The intervention consisted of six breastfeeding counseling sessions, the first one held at the maternity ward and the others at the participants' homes at 7, 15, 30, 60, and 120 days

SUBMITTER: da Silva CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4855844 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature