Interventions for promoting breastfeeding in the Nordic countries – a scoping review
Mirindi, Blandine (2020)
Mirindi, Blandine
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020060316637
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020060316637
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Breastfeeding as a practice varies widely between cultures and countries. The rates of breastfeeding vary depending on different determinants. The World Health Organisation has issued recommendations concerning breastfeeding and these recommendations include breastfeeding as the only nutrition for an infant until the age of 6 months. The aim of this study is to describe and present an overview of different interventions to promote breastfeeding among mothers in prenatal and postnatal health care settings in the Nordic countries. The objectives of the study are to find the different factors that affect breastfeeding and to see how nurses can promote breastfeeding. This thesis was conducted as a scoping review in order to describe current research on breastfeeding support and 12 articles were included in the final review.
The results show that there are different factors that affect breastfeeding such as prenatal anxiety, mental and psychological factors, BMI, depression and hence causing a risk of decreasing the number of infants that are exclusively breastfed. However, the study found different measures of support that can be used in order to promote and encourage mothers to breastfeed such as having continuous breastfeeding support, involving father’s and family-oriented support. More research is needed in order to investigate how breastfeeding support is conducted the Nordic countries and how it relates to national and international recommendations and descriptive studies on how breastfeeding is practiced.
The results show that there are different factors that affect breastfeeding such as prenatal anxiety, mental and psychological factors, BMI, depression and hence causing a risk of decreasing the number of infants that are exclusively breastfed. However, the study found different measures of support that can be used in order to promote and encourage mothers to breastfeed such as having continuous breastfeeding support, involving father’s and family-oriented support. More research is needed in order to investigate how breastfeeding support is conducted the Nordic countries and how it relates to national and international recommendations and descriptive studies on how breastfeeding is practiced.