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Breastfeeding: Research, Support Programs, and Practice

Sunday, November 3, 2013: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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; LCDR, USPHS

Board 1
Process evaluation of a lactation support program in anchorage, AK
Christa Phelps, RN, MPH
Board 2
Initiative to increase breastfeeding rates in Kansas communities: Program goals and objectives
Lisette Jacobson, PhD, MPA, MA, PHR and Ruth Wetta, RN, PhD, MPH, MSN
Board 3
What lies beneath? a review of the literature on breastfeeding and African-American women from qualitative research studies
Tyra Gross, MPH
Board 4
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
Board 5
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 6
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 7
Baby-friendly hospital initiative: Lessons learned from hospitals in los angeles county
Loraine Park, MSW and Holly Campbell, MPP
Board 8
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 9
Assessment of women, infant and children (WIC) peer counselor contact with first time breastfeeding mothers
Lisa Campbell, DNP, RN, APHN-BC, Patricia M. Speck, DNSc, APN, FNP-BC, FAAN, Jim Wan, PhD and Margaret T. Hartig, PhD, FNP-BC
Board 10
Improving breastfeeding awareness through a coordinated school health education initiative
Debra Glaser, EdD and Katherine J. Roberts, EdD, MPH, MCHES

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

Organized by: Breastfeeding Forum

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