Expanding Rural Access to Breastfeeding Support Via Telehealth: The Tele-MILC Trial
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Breastfeeding
In brief
The investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to generate data on the impact of direct-to-consumer "telelactation" (virtual breastfeeding support) services. We will explore the feasibility, acceptability, and impact of these services. Postpartum mothers age 18 and older who have initiated breastfeeding will be recruited at a critical access hospital without access to IBCLCs in rural Pennsylvania and randomized into two study arms: 1) outpatient telelactation services via video calls on personal devices or 2) usual care. Data on breastfeeding duration and exclusivity, as well as perceptions and satisfaction with breastfeeding, will be captured via surveys and in-depth interviews and compared across groups.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02870413
- Run by
- RAND
- People needed
- 203
- Starts
- 2016-10-01
- Expected to finish
- 2018-07-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-10-03
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 46. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may not qualify if…
- Prisoners, incarcerated individuals, detainees, parolees, probationers will be excluded because there may external circumstances outside of their control that may prevent continuous breastfeeding.
- Mothers and infants will be excluded if they have maternal, fetal, or neonatal conditions or complications with the potential to physiologically compromise breastfeeding or milk supply (e.g., infant cardiac defects, post-partum infant ventilator dependence), and or contraindications to breastfeeding as specified by the American Academy of Pediatrics (e.g., HIV+ status).
Where it is running
- RAND Corporation — Arlington, Virginia, United States
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