Telephone peer counseling of breastfeeding among WIC participants: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The US Surgeon General has recommended that peer counseling to support breastfeeding become a core service of the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). As of 2008, 50% of WIC clients received services from local WIC agencies that offered peer counseling. Little is known about the effectiveness of these peer counseling programs. Randomized controlled trials of peer counseling interventions among low-income women in the United States showed increases in breastfeeding initiation and duration, but it is doubtful that the level of support provided could be scaled up to service WIC participants nationally. We tested whether a telephone peer counseling program among WIC participants could increase breastfeeding initiation, duration, and exclusivi

SUBMITTER: Reeder JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4143999 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature