Clinical Question: Can an education...

Clinical Question: Can an educational intervention for prospective fathers advance breastfeeding by their partners?

Setting: Other

cogitation Design: Randomized controlled trial (nonblinded)

Allocation: Concealed

Synopsis: In this randomized cogitation prospective fathers were recruited during the secondary trimester of pregnancy to attend a two-hour class about infant care. In the intervention clump (n = 27), fathers were encouraged to advocate for breastfeeding as the best nutrition for their children. The ascendency group (n = 32) attended a class forward infant care without being given information about breastfeeding. principally (85 percent) of the participating men were black. The educational intervention consisted of videotape and slide presentations, role-playing, and discussion in an informal manner guided by means of a peer educator (a black father). Blinding was not described.

Breastfeeding was initiated by way of 74 percent of women whose partner had attended the intervention class versus 41 percent of those in the have charge of group (P = .02). The impact of the intervention was limited from the fact that only about 10 percent of the men approached for inclusion actually attended a class. Los to follow-up thwarted assessment of the duration of breastfeeding.

Bottom Line: A single educational session to encourage breastfeeding for prospective fathers administrationed during the second trimester of pregnancy has the potential to markedly increase the likelihood of the mother initiating breastfeeding. It is not clear whether it affects the duration of breastfeeding. This research must be reproduc to connoisseur its generalizability. (Level of Evidence: 2b)

studious mood Reference: Wolfberg AJ, et al. Dads as breastfeeding advocates: rises from a randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention. Am J Obstet Gynecol September 2004;191:708-12

Used with permission from French L Fathers can excite breastfeeding. Accessed online November 24 2004 at: http://www.InfoPOEMs.com.

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