Breastfeeding Promotion: Effect of an Educational Program in Brazil
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
TL;DR
An educational program for mothers was carried out at the Maternity of the State University of Campinas Hospital in order to increase the duration of breastfeeding to inform patients about the advantages of breastfeeding and to teach them how to solve simple problems that occur during nursing.
Abstract
An educational program for mothers was carried out at the Maternity of the State University of Campinas Hospital (MUH) in order to increase the duration of breastfeeding. The purpose was to inform patients about the advantages of breastfeeding and to teach them how to solve simple problems that occur during nursing. 200 women from the MUH participated in interviews and in educational talks while another 200 women from a different maternity served as a control group. A significantly larger proportion of women in the experimental group were breastfeeding at each month age of the child. The influence of the program was more marked among older women those with less education and those with older partners. (authors)