A digital intervention to provide supplemental infant feeding support to mothers enrolled in WIC. The trial begins prenatally and continues through 3-months postpartum and tests the feasibility and acceptability of a text messaging intervention aimed at increasing responsive bottle feeding as well as breastfeeding duration and exclusivity among mothers enrolled in WIC using evidence-based components such as interactive self-monitoring and feedback. Recruitment and enrollment never started at Duke for the Intervention represented in this record. The overall status of recruiting and actual start date were previously entered in error.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE
The intervention aims to support infant feeding decisions and teach responsive feeding strategies.
Free health and wellness text messages timed to due date through pregnancy and up until the baby's first birthday.
Duke University Medical Center - with Piedmont Health Services, Inc.
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Engagement
Percent of text messages responded to as measured by text log.
Time frame: 32 weeks gestation to 3 months postpartum
Breastfeeding duration
Number of weeks breastfed as measured by patient response.
Time frame: 0 to 3 months postpartum
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