A multi-component intervention to support breastfeeding in Lebanon: A randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective evidence-based breastfeeding support interventions can bolster breastfeeding practices. This study investigated the effect of a multi-component breastfeeding support intervention delivered in hospital and home settings on six-month exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) relative to standard care.

Methods

This is a parallel group, randomized clinical trial, in which 362 healthy pregnant women with singleton pregnancy were randomly allocated to a multi-component intervention that included antenatal breastfeeding education, professional, and peer support, delivered in hospital and home settings for six months (experimental, n = 174), or to standard care (control, n = 188). The primary outcome was six-month EBF rate. Secondary outcomes were exclusive and any breastfe

SUBMITTER: Nabulsi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6568407 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature