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The effectiveness of online breastfeeding education and support program on mothers of preterm infants: A
Jun Zhang1, Yawei Li2, Luyang Zhu1
1School of Nursing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Objective:
To develop a WeChat-mini-program-based Online breastfeeding education and support program and explore its impacts on promoting mothers of preterm infants' breastfeeding knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and rates.
Design, Setting, And Participants:
This was a quasi-experimentation with two-group comparisons. The eligible preterm mother-infant pairs were recruited from the NICU within seven days postpartum. The first 25 mothers admitted to the NICU during the study period were included in the control group, and the following 25 mothers were in the intervention group according to the admission order of their preterm infants. A generalized linear mixed model was used to detect the effects of the online intervention program and the interaction effects of group and time.
Interventions:
The participants received a 3-month online breastfeeding intervention from a WeChat mini program for the intervention group.
Measurements:
Mothers of preterm infants' breastfeeding knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and breastfeeding rates of different patterns were respectively evaluated by the Breastfeeding Knowledge Questionnaire (BKQ), Iowa Infant Feeding Attitude Scale (IIFAS), and Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale (BSES) at three different points of times including before intervention (T0), at one month postpartum (T1) and three months postpartum (T2).
Findings:
The breastfeeding knowledge significantly differed between the two groups but without differences between different time points and in the grouping*time interaction. Within the intervention group, significant improvements were observed from T0 to T2 and T1 to T2. No significant differences in breastfeeding attitudes, self-efficacy, and breastfeeding rates were found between and within groups.
Key Conclusions:
The WeChat-mini-program-based online breastfeeding intervention may improve the breastfeeding knowledge level of mothers of preterm infants but has no significant impact on mothers' breastfeeding attitudes, breastfeeding self-efficacy, and breastfeeding rates.
Implications For Practice:
The WeChat mini program can be used to improve the breastfeeding knowledge level of mothers of preterm infants. Future interventions need to target both mothers of preterm infants and their family members by combing online and offline approaches.
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