Promotion of breastfeeding in Italian Maternity Hospitals: a pre-intervention study
At T1 of the HPB Project, breastfeeding rates at hospital discharge for healthy, term infants with a normal weight at birth appear to be suboptimal among Italians MHs. Particularly, the range of EBF rates among participating centers is wide, with 50% of the MHs having EBF rate lower than 73%. Therefore, the ongoing HPB Project might represent not only an opportunity to increase the initiation of breastfeeding and to improve quality of health care in the whole study group of MHs, but possibly also to level differences between centers.
Authors
- Elena Scarpato (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3145-6206)
- Irene Cetin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9217-3034)
- Guglielmo Salvatori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8761-8732)
- Maria Elisabetta Baldassarre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0590-6664)
- Riccardo Davanzo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8315-8097)
- E. Viora (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7981-8363)
Institutions
- University of Insubria (IT)
- University of Milan (IT)
- Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico (IT)
- Federico II University Hospital (IT)
- Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital (IT)
- University of Bari Aldo Moro (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Italian Journal of Pediatrics/Italian journal of pediatrics
- Published
- 2024-10-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13052-024-01793-9
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.93