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Trial reportInternational breastfeeding journal2021

Effectiveness of a smartphone-based educational intervention to improve breastfeeding.

Navisa Seyyedi, Leili Rahmatnezhad, Maryam Mesgarzadeh, Hamidreza Khalkhali, Negisa Seyyedi, Bahlol Rahimi

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Trial report in International breastfeeding journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Navisa SeyyediStudent Research Committee, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
Leili RahmatnezhadSchool of Nursing and Midwifery, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
Maryam MesgarzadehSchool of Nursing and Midwifery, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
Hamidreza KhalkhaliSchool of Public Health, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
Negisa SeyyediNursing Care Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Bahlol RahimiSchool of Allied Medical Sciences, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran. bahhlol.rahimi@umsu.ac.ir.ORCID 0000-0003-4927-1664
Urmia University · IRIran University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundExclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is essential during the first six months of life and confers countless benefits to mothers and infants. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of a smartphone-based educational intervention to improve new mothers' breastfeeding for infants younger than six months of age in Urmia, Iran.

methodsA randomized controlled trial study was conducted from January to December 2019 with 40 new mothers and their first child aged < 3 months, assigned to the intervention (mobile app education + routine care) and control groups (routine care). The mean age of infants was 1.25 and 0.98 months for each group consequently. The designed app content categorized according to seven sections (the importance of breastfeeding, behavioral methods, complementary feeding and EBF, pumping and manual expression, managing common breast-related and breastfeeding problems, breastfeeding tips in special situations, and common queries) for educating the required knowledge to nursing mothers.

resultsForty mothers were assessed for primary outcomes in each group. At three months, the mothers' knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) had meaningful differences in the intervention group compared to the control group. In the intervention group, the degree of changes in knowledge and attitude were 5.67 ± 0.94 and 8.75 ± 1.37 respectively more than the control group (p < 0.001, p < 0.001). However, this amount for the practice score was 0.8 ± 0.49 which is considered to be marginally significant (p = 0.063). During the study, the mothers' breastfeeding self-efficacy showed significant progress in favor of the intervention group. The score enhancement was 26.85 ± 7.13 for the intervention group and only 0.40 ± 5.17 for the control group that was confirmed to be significant (p < 0.001).

conclusionThe smartphone-based app for educating new mothers on breastfeeding had a significantly positive effect on breastfeeding self-efficacy and maternal KAP. In future studies, the intervention can be tested in both prenatal and postpartum periods.

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Breast FeedingSmartphoneChildFemaleHumansInfantInfant Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaMothersPostpartum PeriodPregnancyBreastfeedingEducational early interventionmHealthThe study was registered in the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (IRCT Id: IRCT20190705044103N2) at 25 September 2020

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PMID34544429
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