PERINATAL TRIALS REPORT

PT0399

ABFAB: Attachment to the breast and family attitudes towards breasfeeding

Plain Language Summary:     

ABFAB aimed to determine whether mid-pregnancy breastfeeding education had an effect on the breastfeeding rate at hospital discharge and at 6 months following the birth of the baby. Women planning to give birth as public patients at the Royal Women's Hsopital, Melbourne, were approached at 18-20 weeks of pregnancy and invited to participate in the study. Participants were randomy allocated to one of the three groups: a control group, or one of two interventions. Once interventions was an antenatal breastfeeding class that focussed on practical aspects of breastfeeding such as correct attachment and positioning of the baby. The other intervention included two antenatal breastfeeding classes that explored family attitudes to breastfeeding.

Trial status:                         Follow-up complete

Date of accrual completion:  17 Aug 2001

Trial Objective:                   

The study aims to determine whether breastfeeding education in the middle of pregnancy, with a focus on either attitudes to breastfeeding or on technical aspects of breastfeeding, has an effect on the breastfeeding rate at hospital discharge, and on the duration of breastfeeding.

Type of administration:        Single centre

Principal Investigator/s:       

Prof Judith Lumley

Email: j.lumley@latrobe.edu.au

Contact Person/s:               

Ms Della Forster

Email:d.forster@latrobe.edu.au

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