The Effect of Web-Based Breastfeeding Education Based on Knowledge, Motivation, Behavioral Skills Model on Fathers' Breastfeeding Support

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Conditions studied: Paternal Involvement in Breastfeeding, Parental Support for Breastfeeding

In brief

Breast milk is a highly bioavailable, easily digestible, and miraculous food that meets all the nutrient, energy, and fluid needs of the baby for physical, mental, and psychological development. International health organizations emphasize that breastfeeding is the key to sustainable development and recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months, followed by continued breastfeeding with complementary feeding for two years or longer. However, only a limited proportion of infants, both globally and in Turkey, are exclusively breastfed during the first six months, which remains below the targeted rates set within the scope of sustainable development goals. When the factors underlying mothers' discontinuation of breastfeeding are examined, many social, cultural, and psychological reasons are reported. One of these reasons is spousal/father support. In recent years, studies have focused on fathers to increase breastfeeding rates. In this direction, breastfeeding training based on the Knowledge-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (BMB) model, planned to be given to fathers to support the breastfeeding process and to accompany mothers and babies in breastfeeding, is of great importance. In the literature, no web-based online study was found to support fathers in the breastfeeding process based on the BMB model. The fact that the training is based on a theoretical model and planned to be web-based in terms of accessibility for fathers constitutes the original aspect of the study. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of web-based breastfeeding education, based on the Knowledge-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model, on fathers' breastfeeding support.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07205458

Run by

Sakarya University

People needed

68

Starts

2025-10-15

Expected to finish

2027-02-10

Last updated by the study team

2025-10-03

Who can join

Age: 19 and older. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• • Fathers aged 19 and over
• Becoming a nuclear family
• Father can read and write Turkish
• Father is open to communication and cooperative
• Becoming a father for the first time
• The father continues to live with his wife
• Having a healthy and full-term baby
• Not having any known medical/mental illness
• Volunteering to participate in the research
• Have access to the Internet, a computer or a smartphone

You may not qualify if…

• Fathers who refuse to participate in the research
• Mothers experiencing postpartum depression
• Fathers whose babies are hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit
• Fathers who have multiple or premature babies
• Fathers who do not speak Turkish and are not open to communication
• Presence of conditions that would contraindicate breastfeeding
• Babies without health issues requiring surgical treatment

Where it is running

• Sakarya Üniversitesi — Sakarya, Turkey (Türkiye) (enrolling)

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