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Practices and Policies That Support Breastfeeding Among Military Women: A Systematic Review
CONCLUSION: Certain perinatal practices designed to encourage early skin-to-skin contact appear to improve breastfeeding initiation and duration among women serving in the U.S. military. However, there is an overall lack of quality evidence supporting effective practices and policies associated with increased breastfeeding initiation and duration in this population. Given the recent movement toward policy changes that support pregnant and postpartum service members across services, more research is needed to determine the impact of these and other practices and policies on breastfeeding rates, specifically among enlisted s...
Source: Military Medicine - May 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Bridget A Owens Diane DiTomasso Source Type: research
Breastfeeding support provided by lactation consultants in high-income countries for improved breastfeeding rates, self-efficacy, and infant growth: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
DiscussionThis review will fill an important gap in the lactation support literature. The findings will be of importance to policymakers who seek to implement interventions to improve breastfeeding rates.Trial registrationThis review has been registered in the PROSPERO database (ID: CRD42022326597).
Source: Systematic Reviews - May 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Breastfeeding and behavior disorders among children and adolescents: a systematic review
CONCLUSIONS Breastfed children for at least three to four months had fewer total behavior and conduct disorders in childhood. Further studies are needed to better understand this association, particularly in adolescence and involving other behavioral profiles.
Source: Revista de Saude Publica - February 5, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Workplace Programs for Supporting Breastfeeding: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
CONCLUSIONS: Workplace programs may be effective in promoting breastfeeding among employed mothers and partners of employed fathers. However, no randomised controlled trials were identified, and better-quality research on workplace interventions to improve breastfeeding is needed.
PMID: 33050979 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Public Health Nutrition - October 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sherry Tang XY, Patterson P, MacKenzie-Shalders K, van Herwerden L, Bishop J, Rathbone E, Honeyman D, Reidlinger DP Tags: Public Health Nutr Source Type: research
Mobile Phone Applications to Support Breastfeeding Among African-American Women: a Scoping Review
ConclusionsThe quality of studies was generally high and many included African-American participants, but research focused on breastfeeding apps specifically for African-American mothers/parents is limited, creating a meaningful gap in the literature.
Source: Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities - November 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Effect of Breastfeeding Duration and Parity on the Risk of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
CONCLUSIONS: The first birth and breastfeeding for <6 months were associated with significant reductions in EOC risk.
PMID: 27951628 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health - December 14, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: J Prev Med Public Health Source Type: research
Maternal and perinatal outcomes and pharmacological management of Covid-19 infection in pregnancy: a systematic review protocol
DiscussionThis systematic review will summarize the existing data on effect of COVID-19 on maternal and perinatal population. Furthermore, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first systematic review addressing therapeutic management and safety of medicines to treat COVID-19 during pregnancy and breastfeeding.Systematic review registrationThis systematic review has been registered and published with Prospero (CRD42020172773).
Source: Systematic Reviews - July 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Breastfeeding Mothers' Experiences: The Ghost in the Machine
We critically review qualitative research studies conducted from 2000 to 2012 exploring Western mothers’ breastfeeding experiences. We used the search criteria "breastfeeding," "qualitative," and "experiences" to retrieve 74 qualitative research studies, which were reduced to 28 when the terms "existential’’ and "research’’ were applied. We found that the impact of technology and the pervasive worldwide marketing of infant formula devalued breastfeeding mothers’ narratives in a number of ways. Women’s bodies were viewed as machine-like objects and the breast was seen as a disembodi...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - April 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Regan, P., Ball, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Barriers to breastfeeding are shaped by sociocultural context: an exploratory qualitative study in Bangladesh
CONCLUSION: A range of barriers at individual, society and system level have important implications for infant and young children's breastfeeding practices in Bangladesh. Development of interventions that address the range of barriers that many mothers face is essential to support breastfeeding practices. Potential interventions include strengthening information-giving during interaction between mothers and health workers on breastfeeding techniques, and engaging fathers and other "significant others" in counseling on breastfeeding.PMID:35964118 | PMC:PMC9375414 | DOI:10.1186/s41043-022-00312-y
Source: Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition - August 13, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Md Fakhar Uddin Ishrat Jabeen Mohammad Ashraful Islam Mahfuzur Rahman Mohammod Jobayer Chisti Tahmeed Ahmed Haribondhu Sarma Source Type: research
Knowledge mobilization tool to promote, protect, and support breastfeeding during COVID-19
Can J Public Health. 2021 May 21. doi: 10.17269/s41997-021-00532-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSETTING: This knowledge mobilization project was conceptualized to increase awareness among breastfeeding mothers and the general public on safe infant feeding practices during the COVID-19 pandemic by addressing myths and misconceptions associated with breastfeeding practices, guiding breastfeeding mothers to make informed decisions around child feeding practices, and offering meaningful guidance in simple language through a short online animated video.INTERVENTION: This project was undertaken in four phases. During phase 1, ...
Source: Canadian Journal of Public Health - May 21, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shela Akbar Ali Hirani Megan Pearce Amanda Lanoway Source Type: research
