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Trial reportMaternal & child nutrition2018

Breastfeeding and risk for ceasing in mothers of preterm infants-Long-term follow-up.

Jenny Ericson, Mats Eriksson, Pat Hoddinott, Lena Hellström-Westas, Renée Flacking

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Trial report in Maternal & child nutrition, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01806480 (The Effectiveness of Proactive Telephone Support Provided to Breastfeeding Mothers of Preterm Infants - a Randomized Controlled Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 32 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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2 · The registry

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The Effectiveness of Proactive Telephone Support Provided to Breastfeeding Mothers of Preterm Infants - a Randomized Controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorUppsala UniversityRan2013 to 2016Enrolled493ConditionsBreastfeeding, Quality of Life, Parental Stress, AttachmentArmsPerson-centred proactive breastfeeding telephone support
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Growth and human milk intake outcomes from postdischarge feedings among very-low-birth-weight preterm infants: A systematic review.Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jenny EricsonDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-3460-7500
Mats ErikssonFaculty of Medicine and Health, School of Health Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-5996-2584
Pat HoddinottNursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Research Unit, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
Lena Hellström-WestasDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Renée FlackingSchool of Education, Health and Social Studies, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breastfeeding is challenging for mothers of preterm infants. The aim of this paper is to describe risk factors for ceasing breastfeeding and methods of feeding until 12 months postnatal age in mothers who breastfed their preterm infants at discharge from neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The data come from a randomised controlled trial, which evaluated the effectiveness on exclusive breastfeeding at 8 weeks of proactive telephone support compared with reactive support offered to mothers of preterm infants following discharge from NICU. Six NICUs across Sweden randomised a total of 493 mothers. We used regression and survival analyses to assess the risk factors for ceasing breastfeeding and the long-term outcomes of the intervention. The results showed that 305 (64%) of the infants were breastfed at 6 months and 49 (21%) at 12 months. Partial breastfeeding at discharge, low maternal educational level, and longer length of stay in the NICU increased the risk for ceasing breastfeeding during the first 12 months. Furthermore, the Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that the proportion of mothers who ceased breastfeeding did not differ between the intervention (n = 231) and controls (n = 262) during the first 12 months (log-rank test p = .68). No difference was found between groups on method of feeding. More than 85% of the infants were fed directly at the breast. These findings provide important insights for health professionals who are supporting mothers of preterm infants to breastfeed long term. Registered in www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01806480).

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Infant, PrematureAdultBottle FeedingBreast FeedingFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHealth PromotionHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleSocioeconomic FactorsTime Factorsbottlebreast milkfeedingmotherneonatalRCT

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PMID29733102
PMCPMC6175451

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