Women's preferences for alternative financial incentive schemes for breastfeeding: A discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasing breastfeeding rates have been associated with reductions in disease in babies and mothers as well as in related costs. 'Nourishing Start for Health (NoSH)', a financial incentive scheme has been proposed as a potentially effective way to increase both the number of mothers breastfeeding and duration of breastfeeding.

Aims

To establish women's relative preferences for different aspects of a financial incentive scheme for breastfeeding and to identify importance of scheme characteristics on probability on participation in an incentive scheme.

Methods

A discrete choice experiment (DCE) obtained information on alternative specifications of the NoSH scheme designed to promote continued breastfeeding duration until at least 6 weeks after birth. Four at

SUBMITTER: Becker F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5896913 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature