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Breastfeeding: Research, Support Programs, and Practice

Sunday, November 3, 2013: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Poster
This poster session provides information about multi-level influences on breastfeeding attitudes and practices; strategies for engaging in community research; and efforts to improve breastfeeding practices, particularly among populations with suboptimal breastfeeding rates.
Session Objectives: Describe strategies to collect information about women's attitudes about breastfeeding. Identify quality improvement-related methods to improve breastfeeding practices.
Organizer:
Deborah Dee, PhD, MPH; CDR, USPHS

Board 1
Process evaluation of a lactation support program in Anchorage, AK   
Christa Phelps, RN, MPH
Board 2
What lies beneath? A review of the literature on breastfeeding and African-American women from qualitative research studies   
Tyra Gross, MPH
  
Board 3
Breastfeeding attitudes, beliefs, and practices in low-income African American women in Shelby County, Tennessee, before a planned media campaign   
Julie Ware, MD, MPH, FAAP, FABM, IBCLC, Fawaz Mzayek, MD, MPH, PhD and Marian Levy, DrPH, RD, FAND
Board 4
Influence of nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and counseling practices on breastfeeding outcomes: A Philadelphia case study   
Pam Phojanakong, MPH, Claudia Valeggia, PhD and Gail Herrine, MD, FACOG, IBCLC
Board 5
Provider's help/encouragement and breastfeeding practices in Los Angeles County (LAC): Findings from the 2010 Los Angeles Mommy and Baby (LAMB) survey   
Shin Margaret Chao, PhD, MPH and Stacy Sun, MS
Board 6
Baby-friendly hospital initiative: Lessons learned from hospitals in Los Angeles County   
Holly Campbell, MPP and Loraine Park, MSW
     
Board 7
Perinatal home visiting positively impacts breastfeeding and parenting: Findings from the Best Start LA evaluation   
Sarah Benatar, PhD, Heather Sandstrom, PhD, Ian Hill, MPA, MSW, Margaret Wilkinson, Deborah Grodzicki, MA, Jennifer Marcella, MA, Maria Lourdes Brown, MPH, Christina Christie, PhD and Todd Franke, PhD
Board 8
Assessment of women, infant and children (WIC) peer counselor contact with first time breastfeeding mothers   
Lisa Campbell, DNP, RN, APHN-BC, Jim Wan, PhD, Patricia M. Speck, DNSc, APN, FNP-BC, DF-IAFN, FAAFS, FAAN and Margaret T. Hartig, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP
  
Board 9
Improving breastfeeding awareness through a coordinated school health education initiative   
Debra Glaser, EdD and Katherine J. Roberts, EdD, MPH, MCHES
Board 10
Making breastfeeding the norm: Breastfeeding best practices in Hudson and Union Counties, NJ   
Sarah Bilyj, RN, BSN, CLC and Liliana Pinete, MD, MPH

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Breastfeeding Forum
Endorsed by: Medical Care, Maternal and Child Health, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

See more of: Breastfeeding Forum