Feasibility of a Touch Screen Computer Based Breast-feeding Educational Support Program

NCT03308058 | Completed Results DMC

• 1 other identifier: 0430-12-EP
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 46
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Breastfeeding has many positive and long lasting impacts on the health of infants and mothers. The investigators propose to develop a bilingual touch screen computer based breastfeeding educational support program to promote breastfeeding among Hispanic rural women living in Scottsbluff area of rural Nebraska. An interactive, tailored, touch screen, bilingual breastfeeding educational program will be developed to deliver breastfeeding education to enhance partial or exclusive breastfeeding. An experimental two-group repeated measures design will be utilized. Ninety four prenatal Hispanic rural women aged 15 years and above will be enrolled and randomly assigned to either the intervention (computer based program, N=47) or attention control (printed educational material, N=47) groups at the Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff. Information gathered will include socio-demographics, familiarity with use of technology and health literacy assessment. Process variables measured will include breast-feeding knowledge and breast-feeding self-efficacy. Primary and secondary outcomes include breast-feeding duration in binary categories (partial or exclusive) and number of sick baby medical visits and months of illnesses. All assessments will be done at baseline, days 3 and 7, weeks 2 and 6 and months 3 and 6 in both the intervention and attention intervention groups. The current proposed study may help advance our understanding to use health information technology as a medium to disseminate bilingual health education programs in rural settings. This exploratory study will lay a foundation for a larger multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the impact of computer based educational intervention to promote sustainability of breastfeeding among women across diverse settings.

Conditions

Pregnancy Related

Keywords

Breastfeeding Rural Hispanic Pregnant

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Breastfeeding Assessment

  Questionnaire Breastfeeding duration (Specify time) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

  0-6 months

Study Arms (2)

Breastfeeding Computer education

EXPERIMENTAL

Breastfeeding Computer education

Behavioral: Breastfeeding computer education

Printed Educational material

NO INTERVENTION

Printed educational material

Interventions

Breastfeeding computer education BEHAVIORAL

Breastfeeding computer education

Breastfeeding Computer education

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 15 Years - 35 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Hispanic females age 15 years and above
• Pregnant
• Agreeing to participate in the study
• Understand spoken English
• Telephone at home
• Available for follow-up interview.

You may not qualify if:

• mental and physical challenge that makes it difficult to use the touch based computer program
• unavailability for telephone follow-up and
• involvement in other clinical trials or protocols related to breastfeeding.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Nebraska: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Regional West Medical Center

Scottsbluff, Nebraska, 69361, United States

Location

Related Publications (5)

• Thompson DA, Joshi A, Hernandez RG, Jennings JM, Arora M, Ellen JM. Interactive nutrition education via a touchscreen: is this technology well received by low-income Spanish-speaking parents? Technol Health Care. 2012;20(3):195-203. doi: 10.3233/THC-2012-0669.

  PMID: 22735734 BACKGROUND

• Thompson DA, Joshi A, Hernandez RG, Bair-Merritt MH, Arora M, Luna R, Ellen JM. Nutrition education via a touchscreen: a randomized controlled trial in Latino immigrant parents of infants and toddlers. Acad Pediatr. 2012 Sep-Oct;12(5):412-9. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2012.03.020. Epub 2012 Jun 7.

  PMID: 22682718 BACKGROUND

• Joshi A, Weng W, Lichenstein R, Arora M, Sears A. Prospective tracking of a pediatric emergency department e-kiosk to deliver asthma education. Health Informatics J. 2009 Dec;15(4):282-95. doi: 10.1177/1460458209345899.

  PMID: 20007653 BACKGROUND

• Joshi A, Arora M, Dai L, Price K, Vizer L, Sears A. Usability of a patient education and motivation tool using heuristic evaluation. J Med Internet Res. 2009 Nov 6;11(4):e47. doi: 10.2196/jmir.1244.

  PMID: 19897458 BACKGROUND

• Joshi A, Lichenstein R, Rafei K, Bakar A, Arora M. A pilot study to evaluate self initiated computer patient education in children with acute asthma in pediatric emergency department. Technol Health Care. 2007;15(6):433-44.

  PMID: 18057566 BACKGROUND

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Jane Meza
• Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center

jmeza@unmc.edu

402-559-6825

Study Officials

• Susan Wilhelm, PhD

  University of Nebraska

  STUDY CHAIR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: No
• Restriction Type: OTHER
• Restrictive Agreement: Yes

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 30, 2012
• First Posted: October 12, 2017
• Study Start: October 18, 2012
• Primary Completion: January 5, 2018
• Study Completion: January 5, 2018
• Last Updated: September 28, 2023
• Results First Posted: June 19, 2019

Record last verified: 2023-09

Locations

US (1)