Grandmother and health care professional breastfeeding perspectives provide opportunities for health promotion in an American Indian community.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

While breastfeeding is well recognized as beneficial, rates of breastfeeding among American Indian women are below average and contribute to health inequities. Culturally specific approaches to breastfeeding research are called for to inform appropriate interventions in American Indian communities. Specifically, a grandmother's role in breastfeeding promotion is of great import particularly in American Indian (AI) groups, although is an understudied topic to date.

Objective

This research seeks to fill a prominent literature gap by utilizing a grounded theory and community-based research approach to inform breastfeeding practices from the voices of grandmothers and health care professionals in a rural AI community in the United States.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Houghtaling B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6015548 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature