期刊
MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION
卷 18, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mcn.13271
关键词
breastfeeding peer support; meta-ethnography; non-profit; peer support; socio-economic deprivation; systematic review
Non-profit breastfeeding organizations in the UK practice breastfeeding peer support in socio-economically deprived areas through community-level change, individual one-to-one support, and partnerships with health professionals. These practices aim to influence community and individual level changes, underscoring the importance of interprofessional collaboration. Further efforts to strengthen the peer-professional interface for needs-led care are necessary.
In many high-income countries such as the United Kingdom, inequalities in breastfeeding initiation and continuation rates exist, whereby socio-economically advantaged mothers are most likely to breastfeed. Breastfeeding peer support interventions are recommended to address this inequality, with non-profit breastfeeding organisations providing such support in areas of deprivation. As these organisations' roots and membership are often formed of relatively highly resourced women who have different backgrounds and experiences to those living in areas of deprivation, it is important to understand their practices in this context. In order to explore how UK non-profit organisations practice breastfeeding peer support in areas of socio-economic deprivation, a systematic review and meta-ethnography of published and grey literature was undertaken. Sixteen texts were included, and three core themes constructed: (1) 'changing communities' reveals practices designed to generate community level change, and (2) 'enabling one to one support', explains how proactive working practices enabled individual mothers' access to supportive environments. (3) 'forging partnerships with health professionals', describes how embedding peer support within local health services facilitated peer supporters' access to mothers. While few breastfeeding peer support practices were directly linked to the context of socio-economic deprivation, those described sought to influence community and individual level change. They illuminate the importance of interprofessional working. Further work to consolidate the peer-professional interface to ensure needs-led care is required.
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