Effect of Oketani Breast Massage on Promoting Breastfeeding
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Oketani massage group.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy, Oketani Massage, Latching. Basic parameters: 18 years — 35 years · Female.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Egypt
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Effect of Oketani Massage on Successful Breastfeeding
Overview
Breastfeeding is essential for infant survival and maternal health; however, many primipara women experience breastfeeding difficulties in the early postpartum period, particularly, latching difficulties, ineffective milk transfer, low breastfeeding self-efficacy and breast engorgement, which may compromise successful breastfeeding. Oketani massage is a non-pharmacological, cost-effective breast massage technique developed to enhance milk flow, improve maternal comfort during breastfeeding and reduce breast engorgement. This study aims to evaluate effect of Oketani massage on successful breastfeeding. Successful breastfeeding will be assessed through indicators of maternal latching technique, successful breastfeeding behavior and maternal breastfeeding self-efficacy. The findings of this study may support the use of Oketani massage as a supportive nursing intervention to promote successful breastfeeding outcomes in the early postpartum period
Interventions
- Other Oketani massage group
primipara who meet inclusion criteria and who are assigned to the intervention group will be informed about the study and their consent will be obtained.. Primipara mothers in the intervention group will receive Oketani massage after delivery to enhance successful breastfeeding. The massage is performed using 8 specific hand steps (7 steps for separating the mammary glands and 1 step for expression). Each session lasts 15-20 minutes and is repeated according to the study protocol. the researcher
Primary outcome measures
- The LATCH Assessment sheet [Time frame: baseline; 2nd time after the 1st six hours after birth and the third time on discharge(24 hours postpartum)]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Infant Breastfeeding Assessment Tool (IBFAT). [Time frame: baseline; 2nd time after the 1st six hours after birth and the third time on discharge(24 hours postpartum)]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Age between 18 and 35 years
- Singleton pregnancy
- Term gestation (>37-40 weeks).
- Women willing to breast feed
- The woman will deliver by cesarean section and has relative with her
- Absence of maternal physical and/ or mental illness that prevents breastfeeding.
The exclusion criteria include:
- Women with breast problems such as breast tumors, breast surgery and nipple problems
- Women have obstetric complications as postpartum hemorrhage.
- Neonatal problems
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Non-randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Other
Study locations
Egypt · 1 center
- Mansoura University — Al Mansurah
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07354360 · NURS-MU-OKETANI-2026