Sentences with phrase «women in the intervention group reported»

Moreover, significantly more women in the intervention group reported to have received support and relevant help with infant feeding from their partners (128 [91 %] of 140 vs 48 [34 %] of 140).

Moreover, significantly more women in the intervention group reported receiving support and relevant help with infant feeding management from their partners (128 [91 %] of 140 vs 48 [34 %] of 140).

Women in the intervention group reported outcomes at scheduled interviews, whereas the control group were interviewed at 6 months postpartum only.

Not exact matches

Among the women who had reported difficulties with lactation in the intervention and control groups (96 [69 %] and 89 [64 %], respectively), the prevalence of full breastfeeding at 6 months was 24 % and 4.5 %, respectively.

Among the women in the intervention group who reported problems, the frequency of full breastfeeding at 6 months was 23 (24 %) of 96 and was significantly higher compared with control group (4 [4.5 %] of 89; P <.001; Table 4).

In studies where there was randomisation at the clinic level, all women may have been exposed to the same intervention, and contamination between groups would thereby be reduced, but there may still have been a risk of response bias if outcomes were reported to staff providing care.

These results are similar to those found in other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of women than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence from both animal and human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural outcomes for children.29 While the mental development of children of mothers who were not distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the general population, children's development was particularly poor in the distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal distress.