Trial design and participants
CONSOLIDATION
Our study was conducted as a parallel randomised clinical trial with intervention, control, and placebo groups. Reporting of this study has been done in accordance with the Consolidation Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement. It was funded by Iran University of Medical Sciences and conducted in July 2021. The study’s protocol was registered in the Clinical Trial Registration Center on 14 March 2021. Code: IRCT20180427039436N9. Our study population included breast feeders and premature infants whose gestational age was less than 32 weeks who were hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit of Akbarabadi Hospital (referral and educational hospital) in Tehran, Iran.