A randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of a breastfeeding training DVD on improving breastfeeding knowledge and confidence among healthcare professionals in China.
Publication Date
2018-03-27Journal Title
BMC pregnancy and childbirth
ISSN
1471-2393
Publisher
BioMed Central
Volume
18
Issue
1
Pages
80
Language
eng
Type
Article
This Version
VoR
Physical Medium
Electronic
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Ma, Y. Y., Wallace, L. L., Qiu, L. Q., Kosmala-Anderson, J., & Bartle, N. (2018). A randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of a breastfeeding training DVD on improving breastfeeding knowledge and confidence among healthcare professionals in China.. BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 18 (1), 80. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-018-1709-1
Abstract
Background: Despite almost all babies being breastfed initially, the rates of exclusive breastfeeding rate at six months is only 30% in China. Improving professionals' knowledge and practical skill is a key government strategy to increase breastfeeding rates. This study aimed to test the effectiveness of a breastfeeding DVD training method for clinicians on improving their knowledge and confidence in breastfeeding support skills of teaching mothers Positioning and Attachment (P & A) and Hand Expression (HE).
Methods: A randomised controlled trial was conducted in three hospitals in Zhejiang province, China in 2014. Participants were recruited before their routine breastfeeding training course and randomly allocated to intervention group (IG) and control group (CG). The 15 minute "Breastfeeding: Essential Support Skills DVD" was the intervention for IG and vaginal delivery DVD was used for CG. All participants completed questionnaires of job information, knowledge and confidence in the two skills before (baseline) and immediately after viewing the DVD (post DVD).
Results: Out of 210 participants, 191 completed knowledge assessments before and after watching the DVD (IG n=96, CG n=95), with the response rate of 91.0%. At baseline, there are no significant differences in job variables, knowledge scores and confident scores. The total knowledge score significantly increased post-DVD for IG (pre-DVD: M=5.39, SD=2.03; post-DVD: M=7.74, SD=1.71; t (95) =-10.95, p<0.01), but no significant change in total knowledge score for CG between pre- and post-DVD (pre-DVD: M=5.67, SD=1.70; post-DVD: M=5.56, SD=1.63; t (94) =0.85). The total confidence scores were significantly higher post-DVD than pre-DVD in IG (pre-DVD: M=66.49, SD=11.27; post- DVD: M=71.81, SD=9.33; t (68) =-4.92, p<0.01), but no significant difference was seen in CG between pre- and post-DVD total confidence scores (pre-DVD: M=68.33, SD=11.08; post-DVD: M=68.35, SD=11.40; t (65) =-0.25). Personal and job variables did not mediate these effects.
Conclusions: The breastfeeding training DVD improved professionals' knowledge and confidence of the two breastfeeding support skills. However, the effect on professionals' practice and on breastfeeding outcomes needs to be examined in the future.
Keywords
Humans, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Mothers, Breast Feeding, Teaching, Videodisc Recording, Adult, Health Personnel, China, Female, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires
Embargo Lift Date
2100-01-01
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-018-1709-1
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/276561
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