Clinical trial NCT03200925: The Effect of Video Education on Skin-to-Skin at the Time of Delivery
Official title: The Effect of Video Education on Skin-to-Skin at the Time of Delivery
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Kangaroo Care
Video
Prenatal Education
Skin-to-skin
Keywords: video
skin-to-skin
kangaroo care
prenatal education
Lead sponsor: Kettering Health Network
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Ohio University
First posted: 2017-06-27
Enrollment: 240
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The main purpose of this study is to determine the effect of prenatal video education on pregnant women's intention to practice and actual practice of skin to skin contact (SSC) after birth. This study hypothesizes that education in video format will increase patients knowledge about skin to skin in a way that will make them consider participating in skin to skin immediately after birth.

Therefore the end point for this study is intention to participate in SCC measured by a single questionnaire item "Do you plan on participating in skin to skin (or kangaroo care) immediately after birth?" Our secondary end-point will measure whether or not the patient was able to participate in skin to skin within five minutes of delivery.

All study participants will complete a short survey about their intention of practicing skin to skin after birth upon admission for delivery. Half of the study participants will only complete the brief survey. The other half of study participants will then watch a short video about skin to skin and complete one follow up question regarding their intention to practice skin to skin at the time of delivery. All patients will be followed until after delivery to determine if they were able to participate in skin to skin after delivery.

Detailed description: Despite strong support of breastfeeding by organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American Academy of Family Physicians, the rate of breastfeeding initiation at the time of delivery and continuation at 6 months postpartum is below the Center of Disease Prevention's Healthy People 2010 goals (1). UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) have estimated that if all babies were breastfed for a minimum of the first six months of their lives, the rate of morbidity and malnutrition would significantly decrease all over the world (2). The benefits of breastfeeding are numerous for both mothers and infants, with infants obtaining optimal nutrition and passive immunity, and mothers obtaining a more rapid return of postpartum uterine tone, postpartum weight loss, delay of ovulation, and decreased risk of breast, ovarian, and endometrial cancers (3). As a result of this information, in 1991 WHO and UNICEF launched the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) to encourage proper infant feeding practices starting at birth. It is based on ten steps, which the hospital must meet and maintain to obtain certification. In support of Step Four of the BFHI to "help mothers initiate breastfeeding within one hour of birth," the skin-to-skin variation of Kangaroo Mother Care was initiated (4).

Kangaroo position, or skin to skin contact (SSC) on a mother's chest, provides thermoregulation, physiological stability, appropriate stimulation, and encourages bonding and breastfeeding (5). In fact, early SSC was significantly associated with type of feeding at discharge through 3 months postpartum (6). Regrettably, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, some obstacles to SSC and breastfeeding include insufficient prenatal education, disruptive obstetrical practices, and a lack of family and societal support (7). Delivery room and postpartum hospital routines may also significantly disrupt early maternal-infant interactions (8). These barriers to breastfeeding and SSC are more prevalent amongst vulnerable groups, which includes low income, low educational level, and black populations. While effective initiatives such as BFHI are present in hospital settings, guidelines for primary care based interventions originating in a clinician's office currently do not exist (3). Through encouraging education regarding SSC before the time of delivery, patients can actively participate in SSC during delivery and advocate for early SSC (9).

Education can easily influence behavior habits and does not need to require special difficulties on behalf of providers (9). In fact, educational programs have the single greatest effect of any single intervention on both initiation and short term duration for breastfeeding (3). Women who attended breastfeeding classes with lactation consultants - with or without video supplementation - had significantly increased breastfeeding at six months when compared to controls (1). Currently, common office practices include provision of written materials and discharge packets. Neither practice has been shown to be effective in increasing rates of breastfeeding. On the contrary, discharge packets have been shown to reduce the rates of breastfeeding (3). Ideally, breastfeeding education would use both individual or group sessions where both benefits of breastfeeding and SSC would be discussed (10). However, in a busy clinic setting filled with a vulnerable patient population, having the ability to get to extra educational classes is not always an option.

Regardless of amount of prenatal education provided, Southview Medical Center will study participating patients at the time of admission for delivery who watch an 8 minutes 52 second patient education DVD titled "Jumping into Kangaroo Care" by the Ohio Department of Health. Of importance, studies so far have shown no clear pattern for the outcome of breastfeeding in respect to intervention timing (7). In an analysis regarding video modeling, patients who viewed videotapes regarding treatment options had a greater understanding of the risks and benefits of those choices and were more apt to be active participants in decision making (11). Audio-visual material can also be entertaining and can be used by those who have limited literacy. Moreover, the information provided to patients on video has the advantage of being repeatable and consistent, which would allow us to provide the same information to all of our patients (12). By educating patients in a video format at the beginning of their delivery admission, patients will have time to formulate questions and opinions to help them engage in an active dialogue with the staff that will be preforming the delivery. The goal of educating mothers is not only to increase their knowledge and skills but also to influence their attitudes (13). By providing a video which models SSC to all non-emergent anticipated vaginal deliveries upon admission to the hospital, the investigators' hope is to encourage patients to actively participate in SSC at the time of delivery and become their own advocates.

The main purpose of this study is to determine the effect of prenatal video education on pregnant women's intention to practice SSC after birth. This study is critical as quality measures for Southview Medical Center for quarter one of 2017 showed that the hospital has only been 50% successful at initiating skin to skin in vaginal deliveries after 37 weeks gestation with a 5 minute APGAR of 7. The hospital's goal per BFHI is 82%. The investigators' hypothesis is that 30% or more women who did not plan to use SCC would indicate their intention to use SSC post-intervention as compared to those who did not receive the intervention.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Pregnant women at Southview Medical Center
* Over the age of 18
* Anticipating a vaginal delivery within one week of admission to labor and delivery
* English speaking
* Greater than 37 weeks gestation

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not female
* Not pregnant
* Less than 37 weeks gestation
* A scheduled cesarean section
* Unstable medical status
* Expecting an unstable baby requiring medical resuscitation
* Under the age of 18
* Non-English speaking requiring translation services

If a patient has a baby with a 5 minute APGAR less than 7 at the time of delivery or needs to proceed to the operating room for cesarean delivery, the patient would not be included in data collection regarding skin to skin at the time of delivery. For this group, only intention would be measured

Primary outcomes:
measure: Intention to Practice Skin-to-skin Contact After Birth
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Actual Practice of Skin-to-skin Contact After Birth
timeFrame: 1 week
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Centerville
country: United States
facility: Southview Medical Center
state: Ohio
Study officials:
affiliation: Kettering Health Network
name: Catherine M Caponero, DO
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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