Telelactation with a Mobile App: User Profile and Most Common Queries

Padró-Arocas, Alba; Mena‐Tudela, Desirée; Baladía, Eduard; Cervera‐Gasch, Águeda; Chorda, Víctor Manuel González; Aguilar-Camprubí, Laia

doi:10.1089/bfm.2020.0269

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“…On the other hand, in Spain we have two digital tools that seem to be key in supporting lactation among women: LactApp and e‐lactancia. Since their creation, both digital tools have received thousands of visits and often medical and nursing professionals alike also make use of these tools (Padró‐Arocas et al, 2021; Paricio‐Talayero et al, 2020). The teams of lactation professionals at LactApp and e‐lactancia have developed information on COVID‐19, its vaccination, and its possible compatibility with breastfeeding in their respective websites and apps, that aim to empower women through scientific evidence in their decision‐making process regarding breastfeeding by offering them reliable and updated information.…”

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confidence: 99%

The COVID‐19 vaccine in women: Decisions, data and gender gap

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The COVID‐19 vaccine in women: Decisions, data and gender gap

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“…It comprises 5 items related to mobility, personal care, daily activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression. It uses a visual analogue scale (VAS) from 0 to 100 for measuring health condition at the time of application of the questionnaire [42].…”

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Effect of Mobile-Based Counselling on Breastfeeding in Spain: A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol (COMLACT Study)

Mena‐Tudela

Soriano‐Vidal²,

Vila‐Candel

et al. 2023

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Purpose: The primary aim of this study is to determine the influence of an intervention in women based on a free mobile application (LactApp®, Barcelona, Spain) in maintaining breastfeeding (BF) up to 6 months postpartum. The secondary aim is to assess the effect of health literacy (HL) on breastfeeding duration. Methods: A multicenter, randomized controlled clinical trial of parallel groups will be carried out. Women will be randomly assigned to each of the parallel groups. In the control group, usual clinical practice will be followed from the third trimester of pregnancy to promote BF. In the intervention group, and in addition to usual clinical practice, the women will use a free mobile application (LactApp®) from the third trimester to 6 months postpartum. The type of BF at birth, at 15 days and at 3 and 6 months postpartum and the causes of cessation of BF in both groups will be monitored. The hypothesis will be tested using inferential analysis, considering an alpha of 5%. The study protocol was approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of Hospital de la Ribera (Alzira, Valencia, Spain) in February 2021. A per protocol analysis and an intention-to-treat analysis will be performed. Discussion: This study will identify the influence of a mobile application on improving BF rates. If the application proves effective, we will have a tool with free information available to any user at any time of day, which may be complemented by normal clinical practice and be integrated into our health care system. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT05432700.

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“…LactApp is a free mobile application developed to support breastfeeding. LactApp's performance has been described elsewhere 15,16 , but briefly LactApp 's main functionality is an automated breastfeeding consultation system that works as a selfadministered questionnaire based on 48 decision trees that include topics related to breastfeeding, maternity, maternal and child health, built with questions and answers and supported by scientific evidence and up-to-date official health guidelines. The result of the questionnaire leads to more than 2,300 personalized answers that can be reached through more than 76,100 possible paths across the decisions trees, which vary according to the user's and her baby's profile.…”

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“…LactApp is an mHealth solution designed for breastfeeding support 15,16 . LactApp gives mothers customized expert answers to breastfeeding and maternity questions by leveraging Artificial Intelligence (IA) technology.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in Breastfeeding Consultations on LactApp, an m-Health Solution for Breastfeeding Support

Quifer-Rada

Aguilar-Camprubí

Padró-Arocas

et al. 2022

Telemedicine and e-Health

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Introduction:Breastfeeding is an unquestionable right of mothers and their children; however, it is not a one-woman job. For breastfeeding to succeed, women must have access to appropriate support and guidance. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent restriction measures and lockdown to reduce community spread of the disease have negatively impacted breastfeeding support from health services and thus, in mothers' breastfeeding experiences.Objective: The present study aims to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on breastfeeding consultations in LactApp (a mobile app for mHealth focused on breastfeeding support, www.lactapp.com) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials and Methods: We conducted an observational, descriptive, and retrospective study with LactApp data recorded between July 2018 and March 2021 including 9,151,456 queries classified in 48 topics among 137,327 active users. We used Interrupted time series model to evaluate the increase of number of queries consulted and active users due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Wilcoxon test was used to study the increase of certain topics due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Results: LactApp active users increased by 12,092 users (p-value<0.001) during the COVID-19 outbreak and confinement and queries consulted in LactApp also significantly increased by 10,899 queries per month after the pandemic outbreak. The breastfeeding topics that significantly increased are those related to growth spurts, breastfeeding stages, breastfeeding technique, breast pain and mastitis, problems with infants not gaining weight correctly, hypogalactia, increased milk demand, and relactation. These findings are important to understand the potential of online tools when face-to-face professional support is unavailable.

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Telelactation with a Mobile App: User Profile and Most Common Queries

Cited by 8 publications

References 33 publications

The COVID‐19 vaccine in women: Decisions, data and gender gap

The COVID‐19 vaccine in women: Decisions, data and gender gap

Effect of Mobile-Based Counselling on Breastfeeding in Spain: A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol (COMLACT Study)

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in Breastfeeding Consultations on LactApp, an m-Health Solution for Breastfeeding Support

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