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Xena Grossman1, Jana Chaudhuri, Lori Feldman-Winter
1Division of General Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, 88 East Newton Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
Background:
A woman's decision to breastfeed may be influenced by her health care practitioners, but breastfeeding knowledge among clinicians is often lacking. Project HELP (Hospital Education in Lactation Practices) was an intensive education program designed to increase breastfeeding knowledge among health care practitioners. The purpose of this study was to determine whether educating practitioners affected breastfeeding initiation and exclusivity rates at hospitals with low breastfeeding rates.
Methods:
Between March 31, 2005, and April 24, 2006, we taught courses at four Massachusetts hospitals with low breastfeeding rates. Each course consisted of three, 4-hour teaching sessions and was offered nine times. The training, taught by public health professionals, perinatal clinicians, and peer counselors, covered a broad range of breastfeeding-related topics, from managing hyperbilirubinemia to providing culturally competent care. Medical records of infants born before and after the intervention were reviewed to determine demographics and infant feeding patterns.
Results:
Combining data from all hospitals, breastfeeding initiation increased postintervention from 58.5 to 64.7 percent (p = 0.02). An overall increase in exclusive breastfeeding rates was not statistically significant. In multivariate logistic regression for all hospitals combined, infants born postintervention were significantly more likely to initiate breastfeeding than infants born preintervention (adjusted OR 1.32, 95% CI 1.03-1.69).
Conclusions:
Intensive breastfeeding education for health care practitioners can increase breastfeeding initiation rates.
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