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International Breastfeeding Journal encompasses all aspects of breastfeeding. The journal addresses the need for a high quality multi-disciplinary journal in the field. Breastfeeding is recognized as an important public health issue with enormous social and economic implications. Infants who do not receive breast milk are likely to experience ...
2023年8月11日 · Background The World Health Organization and the government of China have made many efforts to improve breastfeeding practices. The evidence of breastfeeding practices over the past decade in China is limited. The current study aimed to describe the current prevalence, variation trends, and determinants of breastfeeding practices in China using data from the National Household Health Service ...
- Zeyu Li
- Participant Recruitment, Randomisation, and Blinding
- Intervention
- Data Collection and Outcomes
- Statistical Analysis
- Qualitative Data Analysis
This study targeted healthy mother–infant pairs and primiparous women who intended to breastfeed. All eligible women were approached by a research assistant on a postnatal ward until the target sample size (20 eligible participants) was met. The inclusion and exclusion criteria are summarised in Table 1. Our target sample size was 20 participants (...
The intervention was based on a community “Breastfeeding Peer Support” scheme organised by the non-government organisation (NGO) Natural Parenting Network and the Department of Health, adapted to incorporate home-based-specific elements . Peer supporters were adult Cantonese-speaking women recruited by the Natural Parenting Network. This NGO has pr...
The primary study outcomes were to identify whether it was feasible to recruit women, randomise participants, and follow up participants until six months postpartum, as well as explore whether the home-based peer support programme was acceptable to participants. Secondary outcomes were the potential efficiacy of the breastfeeding peer support progr...
Descriptive analysis was used to describe feasibility of recruitment, retention, and study participants’ characteristics. To compare baseline characteristics between the two study groups, a chi-square test was used for categorical variables. To test the potential efficacy of the intervention, the primary analysis was an intention-to-treat analysis ...
All women in the intervention group who received the intervention and not lost to follow-up were approached for the interview at study completion. Eight participants had received intervention, of which two had been lost to follow-up at that point and one has refused to be interviewed. Thus, five participants were interviewed. The interview was cond...
2011年6月15日 · Abstract. Clinicians, public health advisors, nutritionists and others have been attempting to increase breastfeeding rates for the last few decades, with varying degrees of success. We need social science researchers to help us understand the role of infant feeding in the family. Some researchers in the area of food and nutrition have found ...
2012年9月29日 · Background Teen mothers face many challenges to successful breastfeeding and are less likely to breastfeed than any other population group in the U.S. Few studies have investigated this population; all prior studies are cross-sectional and collect breastfeeding data retrospectively. The purpose of our qualitative prospective study was to understand the factors that contribute to the ...
2006年3月9日 · Breastfeeding an adopted child has previously been discussed as something that is nice to do but without potential for significant benefit. This paper reviews the evidence in physiological and behavioural research, that breastfeeding can play a significant role in developing the attachment relationship between child and mother. As illustrated in the case studies presented, in instances of ...
2019年11月1日 · Background Chinese mothers of preterm infants often face obstacles to breastfeeding and commonly experience prolonged maternal-infant separation when their high-risk infants are hospitalized in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This separation hinders mother-infant attachment and the establishment of breastfeeding. Currently, little is known about Chinese mothers’ experiences ...
