232562 Maternity Practices and Breastfeeding: Results of the second CDC Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey - 2009

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 : 10:30 AM - 10:55 AM

Deborah L. Dee, PhD, MPH , Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
     
Maternity practices in hospitals and birth centers influence breastfeeding. In 2009, CDC conducted the second national Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) Survey to characterize breastfeeding-related maternity practices in birth facilities throughout the U.S. and to identify practices and policies hospitals and birth centers can change to improve breastfeeding support, and to evaluate changes in maternity practices between 2007 and 2009. Responses were received from 82% of birth facilities. Results will be provided for the following maternity practice domains: labor and delivery care, breastfeeding assistance, mother-newborn contact, newborn feeding practices, post-discharge breastfeeding support, staff training, and structural-organizational factors related to breastfeeding. Specific elements of each domain will be highlighted as well, including the prevalence of: supplementation of healthy, term breastfed infants; rooming-in; staff training on breastfeeding, and more. Results will be presented at the national and state levels, and will include comparisons with findings from the 2007 mPINC survey.

Learning Areas:
Epidemiology
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Public health or related public policy
Public health or related research
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the influence of maternity practices on breastfeeding. 2. Discuss the results of the 2009 CDC mPINC survey. 3. Identify maternity practices that need to be improved to better support breastfeeding.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been involved in breastfeeding research for over 10 years; I am responsible for analyzing the CDC mPINC surveys (2007 and 2009); I have a doctoral degree in maternal and child health / epidemiology.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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