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NCT03533725: BEST4Baby
Breastfeeding Education Support Tool for Baby
NA trial testing Breastfeeding counseling and education services in Breastfeeding in 247 participants. Completed in 30 June 2020.
31 May 2020
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Thomas Jefferson University |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | non randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | health services research |
| Enrollment | 247 |
| Start date | 11 March 2019 |
| Primary completion | 31 May 2020 |
| Estimated completion | 30 June 2020 |
| Sites | 1 location across India |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Breastfeeding counseling and education services
Conditions studied
- Breastfeeding — all drugs for Breastfeeding →
Sponsor
Thomas Jefferson University
Who can join
Adults 18 to 50, female only, with Breastfeeding. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
This study will compare data associated with breastfeeding experiences and outcomes--specifically, breastfeeding continuation after initiation, exclusivity for 6 months of an infant's life, and breastfeeding duration--among 120 subjects recruited late in pregnancy and provided peer counseling and education services incorporating mobile health (mHealth) tools during a period of at least 6 months post-delivery with the data collected from a control group of approximately 120 mothers that did not receive the study intervention.
Publications & conference data
2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of an mHealth supported breastfeeding peer counselor intervention in rural India.
Short VL, Bellad RM, Kelly PJ, Washio Y, et al · · 2022 · cited 6× · PMID 33454986 · DOI 10.1002/ijgo.13599 -
Design, Development, and Testing of BEST4Baby, an mHealth Technology to Support Exclusive Breastfeeding in India: Pilot Study.
Ma T, Chang K, Alyusuf A, Bajracharya E, et al · · 2022 · cited 3× · PMID 36074546 · DOI 10.2196/32795
Verify or expand the search:
- PubMed search for NCT03533725
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03533725 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Thomas Jefferson University
- Last refreshed: 31 May 2022
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