Baby Buddy app evaluation—effective uplift in breast feeding despite unclear mechanism

摘要

We are writing to congratulate the authors of the recently published detailed evaluation of an app (Baby Buddy) designed to support parents during pregnancy and the early years (1). Building on the existing data on the limited effectiveness of mobile health applications in pregnancy and the postnatal period (2,3), this paper is a valuable addition to the current literature in the field. We note that no differences were found in the primary measure of parenting self-efficacy using the TOPSE tool or the secondary outcome of the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS), and this was appropriately recorded in the abstract of the paper.