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Education and training of healthcare staff in the knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to work effectively with breastfeeding women: a systematic review

Overview of attention for article published in International Breastfeeding Journal, February 2017
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Title
Education and training of healthcare staff in the knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to work effectively with breastfeeding women: a systematic review
Published in
International Breastfeeding Journal, February 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13006-016-0097-2
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Anna Gavine, Steve MacGillivray, Mary J. Renfrew, Lindsay Siebelt, Haggi Haggi, Alison McFadden

Abstract

Current evidence suggests that women need effective support to breastfeed, but many healthcare staff lack the necessary knowledge, attitudes and skills. There is therefore a need for breastfeeding education and training for healthcare staff. The primary aim of this review is to determine whether education and training programs for healthcare staff have an effect on their knowledge and attitudes about supporting breastfeeding women. The secondary aim of this review was to identify whether any differences in type of training or discipline of staff mattered. A systematic search of the literature was conducted using the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group's trial register. Randomised controlled trials comparing breastfeeding education and training for healthcare staff with no or usual training and education were included if they measured the impact on staff knowledge, attitudes or compliance with the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI). From the 1192 reports identified, four distinct studies were included. Three studies were two-arm cluster-randomised trials and one was a two-arm individual randomised trial. Of these, three contributed quantitative data from a total of 250 participants. Due to heterogeneity of outcome measures meta-analysis was not possible. Knowledge was included as an outcome in two studies and demonstrated small but significant positive effects. Attitudes towards breastfeeding was included as an outcome in two studies, however, results were inconsistent both in terms of how they were measured and the intervention effects. One study reported a small but significant positive effect on BFHI compliance. Study quality was generally deemed low with the majority of domains being judged as high or unclear risk of bias. This review identified a lack of good evidence on breastfeeding education and training for healthcare staff. There is therefore a critical need for research to address breastfeeding education and training needs of multidisciplinary healthcare staff in different contexts through large, well-conducted RCTs.

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Geographical breakdown

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Unknown 301 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 43 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 10%
Researcher 26 9%
Student > Bachelor 25 8%
Lecturer 17 6%
Other 68 23%
Unknown 93 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 86 29%
Medicine and Dentistry 47 16%
Social Sciences 21 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 2%
Other 34 11%
Unknown 101 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 56. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 August 2019.
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#661,873
of 23,322,966 outputs
Outputs from International Breastfeeding Journal
#22
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Outputs of similar age
#15,950
of 422,064 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Breastfeeding Journal
#2
of 7 outputs
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