Providing Peer Mother Support Through Cell Phone and Group Meetings to Increase Exclusive Breastfeeding in Kenya

NCT01385410 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 26370
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 823
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This behavioural support intervention trial will investigate the potential to increase exclusive breastfeeding rates in an urban Kenyan community through peer mother support delivered either by cell phone or through group meetings. It will follow a cohort of more than 800 women attending antenatal care at a large public hospital, and compare indicators of breastfeeding and infant and maternal health between groups receiving one or other type of peer mother support. The main part of the study will test the primary hypothesis that peer group and cell phone based support can both increase rates of EBF at 3 months by 20% relative to a control group.

Conditions

Breastfeeding

Keywords

breastfeeding exclusively

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• exclusive breastfeeding

  3 months post partum

Study Arms (3)

CPS, cell phone based peer support

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Cell phone base peer mother support for continued exclusive breastfeeding

Behavioral: Peer mother support for continued exclusive breastfeeding

PSG, group meeting based peer support

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Group based peer Cell phone base peer mother support for continued exclusive breastfeeding

Behavioral: Peer mother support for continued exclusive breastfeeding

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Current standard of care and support (national health system)

Interventions

Peer mother support for continued exclusive breastfeeding BEHAVIORAL

Peer counselling on breastfeeding beginning in third trimester and continuing until 3 months postpartum

CPS, cell phone based peer support; PSG, group meeting based peer support

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 45 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• attending antenatal care services at the target facility;
• confirmed pregnant by a health care worker;
• weeks gestation at enrollment;
• competency in KiSwahili or English (or both)
• current resident of Nakuru municipality and expecting to reside there for the next 6 months;
• intend to breastfeed their newborn;
• self-report of any condition preventing the subject from breastfeeding (excluding HIV infection)
• no history of mental illness
• either HIV-negative on test result OR referred bto PMTCT services following verified positive HIV-test results
• willing to participate in study described in IC forms
• years of age

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Toronto: lead
• Egerton University: collaborator
• University of California, Davis: collaborator
• Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition: collaborator
• Emory University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Nakuru Provincial General Hospital

Nakuru, Rift Valley, Kenya

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Breast Feeding

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Feeding Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Daniel Sellen, PhD

  University of Toronto

  STUDY DIRECTOR

• Elizabeth Kamau-Mbuthia, PhD

  Egerton University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Samwel Mbugua, MSc

  Egerton University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Aimee Webb Girard

  Emory University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 28, 2011
• First Posted: June 30, 2011
• Study Start: June 1, 2011
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2012
• Study Completion: January 1, 2013
• Last Updated: October 25, 2013

Record last verified: 2013-10

Locations

KE (1)