Empowering New Mothers: Exploring the Effect of Breastfeeding Health Educational Program on Practices and Feeding Self-Efficacy of Primigravida in Saudi Arabia

NCT06423534 | Recruiting DMC

• 1 other identifier: H-2024-126
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 70
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Being pregnant causes a mother and her child to form a maternal tie, and the birth of the child fills the mother with an immense amount of love and happiness. Breastfeeding is how a mother and infant make their initial touch. Breastfeeding is a mother's priceless gift to her infant and nature's own method of nurturing a baby.

Conditions

Primigravida Women

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• A preformatted structured questionnaire

  It was developed by Tella et al. (2016) and comprised 12 questions that were assessed in various areas under various breastfeeding techniques practice.

  3 months

• Self-Efficacy Scale - Short-Form (BSES-SF)

  It was adopted (Dennis, 2003) that assess maternal self-efficacy for breastfeeding throughout all stages of the study. The BSES-SF is a Likert scale with 14 items organized into two domains, namely: technical and intrapersonal thoughts.

  3 months

Study Arms (2)

Study GROUP

EXPERIMENTAL

Each primigravida in the study group during the last three trimesters will receive three sessions of knowledge, breast care, and breastfeeding technique after filling out a questionnaire (pretest). During 1 month from delivery, we will conduct a post-test with them (after 2 weeks and after 4 weeks) to explore the effect of breastfeeding health educational programs on practices and breastfeeding self-efficacy

Behavioral: Breastfeeding Health Educational Program

Control group

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The control group was selected first and received a brochure leaflet delivered by the researcher. They didn't receive the health educational program

Behavioral: Breastfeeding Health Educational Program

Interventions

Breastfeeding Health Educational Program BEHAVIORAL

Breastfeeding is a mother's priceless gift to her infant and nature's own method of nurturing a baby. Therefore, this study will be conducted to evaluate the primigravida mother's breastfeeding's knowledge, attitude and corrective technique through the implementation of an educational program and to ascertain the efficacy of such a program.

Control group; Study GROUP

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 17 Years - 45 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Primigravida mothers who regularly visit maternity hospitals at Hail and Bisha City.
• Primigravida mothers during last three trimester and 1 month after delivery
• No problems during pregnant and have a healthy baby
• Primigravida mothers who are not contraindicated to breastfeeding

You may not qualify if:

• Multigravida mothers and pregnant women during first and second trimester

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Alexandria University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Faculty of Nursing, Hail university

Hail, Saudi Arabia

RECRUITING

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Lecturer

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 16, 2024
• First Posted: May 21, 2024
• Study Start: March 20, 2024
• Primary Completion: July 15, 2024
• Study Completion: August 10, 2024
• Last Updated: May 21, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

SA (1)