A randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of a breastfeeding training DVD on improving breastfeeding knowledge and confidence among healthcare professionals in China

YuanYing Ma; Louise Wallace; Li Qian Qu; Jo Kosmala-Anderson; Naomi Bartle

doi:10.1186/s12884-018-1709-1

A randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of a breastfeeding training DVD on improving breastfeeding knowledge and confidence among healthcare professionals in China

YuanYing Ma, Louise Wallace, Li Qian Qu, Jo Kosmala-Anderson, Naomi Bartle

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Background: Despite almost all babies being breastfed initially, the exclusive breastfeeding rate at six months is less than 30% in China. Improving professionals’ knowledge and practical skill is a key government strategy toincrease breastfeeding rates. This study aimed to test the effectiveness of a breastfeeding DVD training method for clinicians on improving their knowledge and confidence in the 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 interventiongroup (IG) and control group (CG). The 15 min “Breastfeeding: Essential Support Skills DVD” was the intervention for IG and a vaginal delivery DVD was used for CG. All participants completed questionnaires of job information, knowledgeand 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, totalknowledge 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 totalknowledge 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.

Original language	English
Article number	80
Number of pages	11
Journal	BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Volume	18
Issue number	80
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-018-1709-1
Publication status	Published - 27 Mar 2018

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Keywords

Breastfeeding
Maternity services
DVD
Positioning
Training
Attachment
Hand expression
Midwives
Nurses

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Health Professions(all)
Nursing(all)

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