MUIMME
Research type
Research Study
Full title
MUIMME: MILK BANKING AND THE UNCERTAIN INTERACTION BETWEEN MATERNAL MILK AND ETHANOL
IRAS ID
181994
Contact name
Tanya Cassidy
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
15/NW/0742, NRES Committee North West - Liverpool East
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 11 months, 31 days
Research summary
MUIMME is an EU Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowship awarded to Dr Tanya Cassidy (Chief Investigator [CI]), under Professor Fiona Dykes, Director of the Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture (MAINN) unit, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). This is a qualitative investigation of issues related to donor human milk banking (DHMBing), lifestyle issues, especially alcohol, and trust. Trust is a key issue associated with the expansion of DHMBs, and lifestyle choices are an under studied concern for healthcare providers. Specifically, the CI will obtain appropriate consent and use complimentary qualitative methods over the course of year in four DHMBs from across the UK which will be visited four times to conduct non-participant observations of everyday interactions. To increase validity and reliability open-ended narrative interviews of approximately one hour in length will be conducted with staff, adult donors, and parents of recipients from each bank whose infants are over six months of age. Thirdly to help frame the project, the CI will gather archival/documentary data associated with DHMBing. An additional objective qualitative measurement will be conducted by DHMB staff who will be given one box of breastmilk alcohol 20 strips by the CI during each visit (total 80). These strips will provide positive or negative qualitative anonymized results associated with milk otherwise not suitable for clinical purposes and therefore donors have given consent for this milk to be used for research purposes. At no time will the CI handle milk. Positive results will follow NICE guidelines for bacterial contamination; specifically milk will not be used clinically and more than one result will prompt staff to remind donors of best practices for expressing, as discussed at the 2015 UKAMB AGM. All data will be anonymized, analyzed using analytic abduction and MAX-QDA, and will be part of the EU Pilot Open Access program.
REC name
North West - Preston Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/NW/0762
Date of REC Opinion
7 Oct 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion