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Improving breastfeeding support through the implementation of the baby friendly hospital and community initiatives: a scoping review protocol.
Walsh, Aisling Pieterse, Pieternella McCormack, Zoe Chirwa, Ellen Matthews, Anne
Walsh, Aisling
Pieterse, Pieternella
McCormack, Zoe
Chirwa, Ellen
Matthews, Anne
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2021-04-23
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Baby-friendly community initiative
Baby-friendly hospital initiative
BREASTFEEDING
scoping review.
Baby-friendly hospital initiative
BREASTFEEDING
scoping review.
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Background: Improved breastfeeding practices have the potential to save the lives of over 823,000 children under 5 years old globally every year. Exclusively breastfeeding infants for the first six months would lead to the largest infant mortality reduction. The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is a global campaign by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), which promotes best practice to support breastfeeding in maternity services. The Baby-Friendly Community Initiative (BFCI) is an extension of the BHFI's 10 th step of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding and of the BFHI overall. Its focus is on community-based breastfeeding supports for women. There have been no known attempts to synthesise the overall body of evidence on the BFHI in recent years, and no synthesis of empirical research on the BFCI. This scoping review asks the question: what is known about the implementation of the BFHI and the BFCI globally? Methods and analysis: This scoping review will be conducted according to the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews. Inclusion criteria will follow the Population, Concepts, Contexts approach. A data charting form will be developed and applied to all the included articles. Qualitative and quantitative descriptive analysis will be undertaken. The PAGER (Patterns, Advances, Gaps, Evidence for practice and Research recommendations) methodological framework will be used to analyse and report review findings. Conclusion: This review will establish gaps in current evidence which will inform areas for future research in relation to this global initiative.
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en
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2515-4826
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10.12688/hrbopenres.13180.2
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34095749