Contextualizing the Health Promotion of Breastfeeding: An integrative Review of Parent and Provider experiences in Canada
Hermandeep Deo,
Emmanuela Ojukwu,
Geertje Boschma
Abstract:Improving the rates of breastfeeding has been a prime interest of Public Health Nurses focusing on health promotional strategies as outlined by the World Health Organization. However, evidence of the perceptions held by perinatal families regarding the encouragement to breastfeed is lacking. With the goal of uncovering existing research, an integrative review was conducted, retrieving nine studies. Themes included: variables of delivery (beliefs and ambiguity), outcomes of receivers (expectations, emotions, em… Show more
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