An evaluation of skills acquisition on the WHO/UNICEF Breastfeeding Management Course using the pre-validated Breastfeeding Support Skills Tool (BeSST)

Breastfeeding knowledge among Polish healthcare practitioners supporting breastfeeding mothers

“…Very similar observations have been made by other researchers (OlaOlorun and Lawoyin, 2006;Wallace and Kosmala-Anderson, 2006;Freed et al, 1995;Spear, 2006). The significant increase of breastfeeding knowledge by intervention with taking part in professional development lactation course was proved in this study and others (Moran et al, 2000, Dodgson et al, 2007, Spear, 2006, Bozzette and Posner 2013, Darwent et al, 2014.…”

Healthcare professionals’ and mothers’ perceptions of factors that influence decisions to breastfeed or formula feed infants: a comparative study

“…Practical support in this way is viewed important, especially by new mothers (Raisler 2000). Increasing midwives’ knowledge and skills through extra training is effective (Moran et al. 2000), and teaching midwives ‘hands off’ breastfeeding support techniques (e.g.…”

“…Practical support in this way is viewed important, especially by new mothers (Raisler 2000). Increasing midwives' knowledge and skills through extra training is effective (Moran et al 2000), and teaching midwives 'hands off' breastfeeding support techniques (e.g. not physically touching the mother's breast), for example, has been shown to increase breastfeeding duration (Law et al 2007).…”

Aconselhamento em alimentação infantil: um estudo de intervenção

“…and which will be referred to here as the, "Integrated Course." 6 Several different studies [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] have analyzed courses that included the subject of counseling, with favorable findings, but all of them were dealing with breastfeeding only.…”