Educational videos for practitioners attending Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative workshops supporting breastfeeding positioning, attachment and hand expression skills: Effects on knowledge and confidence

Wallace, Louise M.; Ma, Yuanying; Qiu, Li Qian and Dunn, Orla M. (2018). Educational videos for practitioners attending Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative workshops supporting breastfeeding positioning, attachment and hand expression skills: Effects on knowledge and confidence. Nurse education in practice, 31 pp. 7–13.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2018.04.005

Abstract

UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative (BFHI) is the global standard for maternity and community services requiring all practitioners to be trained to support mothers in the essential skills of supporting positioning and attachment, and hand expression. These studies aim to rigorously assess knowledge in nurses, midwives, and doctors in these skills, tested before and after watching short videos demonstrating these skills. Practitioners were attending BFHI education, and the video study was additional. In Phase 1 clinicians in England were randomised to one of two videos (practitioner role play or clinical demonstration). The results showed improvements in knowledge and confidence, and a preference for clinical demonstration by mothers and infants. The clinical demonstration video was evaluated in China in Phase 2 where expert trainers viewed the video after completing the BHFI workshop, and in Phase 3 practitioners viewed the video before the BHFI workshop. Phase 2 with expert trainers only showed improvement in knowledge of hand expression but not positioning and attachment. In Phase 3 clinicians showed improved knowledge for both skills. In all Phases there were statistically significant improvements in confidence in practice in both skills.
Viewing short videos increased knowledge, particularly about teaching hand expression, and confidence in both skills.

Viewing alternatives

Metrics

Item Actions

Export

You can export this page using these formats Digital Object Identifier - DOI

About

• Item ORO ID
• 55096
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1873-5223
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  Not Set	Not Set	NHS (National Health Service)
  Not Set	Not Set	Coventry University
  Not Set	Not Set	Zhejiang Women's Hospital, China
  Not Set	2017c33059	Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang Province
  Not Set	2017KY097	Zhejiang Province

• Keywords
• Breastfeeding; Breastmilk expression; Self-confidence; BHFI education
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2018 Elsevier Ltd.
• SWORD Depositor
• Jisc Publications-Router
• Depositing User
• Jisc Publications-Router