This report discusses key findings of a landscape analysis conducted to assess the political commitment and priority
for breastfeeding interventions globally and in selected countries.
The reality is that resources are limited
for breastfeeding interventions and perhaps we must learn from whatever is available until there are large - scale, comparable efforts to study this issue.
This session will review the literature
on breastfeeding interventions targeted at fathers using Sherriff's conceptual framework, broadly considering the four key attributes (essential defining characteristics of father support) of the framework, and examine the antecedents (events that occur prior to the occurrence of father support) and consider what can be done to encourage these antecedents, particularly by professionals working with parents.
In the case of gastrointestinal infections, where Wolf says the evidence is strongest, the Promotion of
Breastfeeding Intervention Trial found that 13 out of 100 bottle - fed babies had a GI infection in the first year, compared with 9 out of 100 breast - fed babies.
The cohort has a high representation of women from disadvantaged and lower socioeconomic groups, who are of particular interest in the targeting of
breastfeeding interventions.29, 30 We can not exclude residual confounding by factors that we were not able to account for within this observational study.
As
the breastfeeding intervention can not be blinded, we rated all studies as being at high risk of bias for blinding of participants and personnel.
Featured items include the CDC Breastfeeding Report Card, action guides for the Surgeon General's Call to Action, and The CDC Guide to
Breastfeeding Interventions.
Promotion of
breastfeeding intervention trial (PROBIT): a randomized trial in the Republic of Belarus.
Kramer MS, Chalmers B, Hodnett ED, et al.; PROBIT Study Group (Promotion of
Breastfeeding Intervention Trial).
The study, which is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics, examined more than 13,000 Belarussian teenagers enrolled in the PROmotion of
Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) and found a 54 % reduction in cases of eczema amongst teenagers whose mothers had received support to breastfeed exclusively.