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Published on: September 22, 2023
Mother-Infant Breastfeeding Progress Tool: a guide for education and support of the breastfeeding dyad
Teresa S Johnson1, Pamela J Mulder, Karen Strube
1College of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA. tjs@uwm.edu
Objective:
To describe the development of the Mother-Infant Breastfeeding Progress Tool to be used at the bedside by nurses to guide ongoing support and education for the mother-baby dyad.
Design:
Cross-sectional study.
Setting:
Community hospital in a Midwestern city.
Participants:
Sixty-two English-speaking mother-infant dyads.
Methods:
Three nurse raters (two per session) independently scored the eight characteristics on the Mother-Infant Breastfeeding Progress Tool during 81 breastfeeding sessions.
Main Outcome Measure:
Percent agreement between raters and suggested modifications for the Mother-Infant Breastfeeding Progress Tool.
Results:
The results support the use of the tool as a checklist for assessment of the breastfeeding mother-infant dyad to guide education and support.
Conclusions:
The interrater agreement was high for individual items of the Mother-Infant Breastfeeding Progress Tool. The Mother-Infant Breastfeeding Progress Tool is useful as a checklist for assessing maternal and infant breastfeeding progress, though additional research is needed to support the validity of the tool.
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