Clinical trial NCT04717128: Evaluation of Health Professional Learners' Competence in Newborn Positioning and Attachment Following a Standardized Patient-led Lactation Skills Workshop
Official title: Evaluation of Health Professional Learners' Competence in Newborn Positioning and Attachment Following a Standardized Patient-led Lactation Skills Workshop
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Breastfeeding
Patient Simulation
Lead sponsor: LiquidGoldConcept
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
Collaborators: name: University of Michigan
name: Michigan State University
name: Johns Hopkins University
First posted: 2021-01-20
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Participants will be cluster randomized to complete the standardized-patient led breastfeeding skills workshop with one of the baby dolls.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Evaluating newborn positioning and attachment is a key skill for maternal-child healthcare providers. Trainees have limited opportunities to practice this skill in their clinical rotations due to a lack of access to lactating patients. Thus, positioning and attachment training is traditionally conducted through passive modalities, primarily videos.

Investigators aim to evaluate the impact of an interactive breastfeeding skills workshop using a baby doll on health professional learners' ability to identify effective and ineffective positioning and attachment at the breast.

Detailed description: Faculty at the University of Michigan School of Public Health (UM-SPH), Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHUSON), and Michigan State University (MSU) are collaborating with LiquidGoldConcept (LGC), a company focusing on simulation-based training in maternal-child care, to evaluate the impact of high-fidelity simulation on health professional learner outcomes. For the Phase I SBIR, LGC is developing a high-fidelity newborn simulator for healthcare professional education in clinical lactation.

Evaluating newborn positioning and attachment is a key skill for maternal-child healthcare providers. Trainees have limited opportunities to practice this skill in their clinical rotations due to a lack of access to lactating patients. Thus, positioning and attachment training is traditionally conducted through passive modalities, primarily videos.

Investigators aim to evaluate the impact of an interactive breastfeeding skills workshop using a baby doll on health professional learners' ability to identify effective and ineffective positioning and attachment at the breast.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Enrollment in a health professional training program (e.g. medical student, nursing student, physician resident)

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Primary outcomes:
measure: (Pre-Intervention) Competence in Evaluating Newborn Positioning and Attachment
timeFrame: Day 1 (Pre-Intervention)
measure: (Post-Intervention) Competence in Evaluating Newborn Positioning and Attachment
timeFrame: Day 1 (Post-Intervention)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Performance of Clinical Lactation Skills related to positioning and attachment in a Video-based Simulation (Telesimulation)
timeFrame: 1-12 weeks
measure: Performance of Clinical Lactation Skills related to positioning and attachment in a Video-based Simulation (Telesimulation)
timeFrame: 1-12 weeks
measure: Satisfaction with the Breastfeeding Skills Workshop
timeFrame: 1-12 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ypsilanti
country: United States
facility: LiquidGoldConcept
state: Michigan
Study officials:
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