Trial reportThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2006
The effect of a programme of organised and supervised peer support on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding: a randomised trial.
Trial report in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 18 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Community-based maternal and newborn educational care packages for improving neonatal health and survival in low- and middle-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- A realist review of one-to-one breastfeeding peer support experiments conducted in developed country settings.Maternal & child nutrition · 2018Pooled it
- Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
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- Antenatal breastfeeding education for increasing breastfeeding duration.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Interventions for promoting the initiation of breastfeeding.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
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- Breastfeeding promotion interventions and breastfeeding practices: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2013Pooled it
- Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Antenatal breastfeeding education for increasing breastfeeding duration.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011Pooled it
- Effect of breastfeeding promotion interventions on breastfeeding rates, with special focus on developing countries.BMC public health · 2011Pooled it
- Effect of antenatal peer support on breastfeeding initiation: a systematic review.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2010Pooled it
- Breastfeeding peer counseling: from efficacy through scale-up.Journal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant Association · 2010Pooled it
- Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2010Pooled it
- A systematic review of the effectiveness of peer-based interventions on health-related behaviors in adults.American journal of public health · 2010Pooled it
- Peer support intervention (ABA-feed) to improve breastfeeding: UK based, multicentre, parallel group, randomised controlled trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2026Trial
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Abstract
backgroundPeer support may improve breastfeeding rates but the evidence is inconclusive. Previous studies and reviews recommend trials in different healthcare settings.
aimTo test if a specified programme of peer support affects the initiation and/or the duration of breastfeeding. DESIGN OF STUDY: A two-group randomised controlled trial of peer support for breastfeeding with evaluation of breastfeeding initiation and duration on an intention-to-treat basis.
settingGeneral practice in Ayrshire, Scotland.
methodFollowing informed consent, 225 women at 28 weeks gestation were allocated to control or peer support group by post-recruitment concealed allocation. All peer support and control group mothers received normal professional breastfeeding support. Additionally, those in the peer support group still breastfeeding on return home from hospital had peer support until 16 weeks.
resultsThirty-five of the 112 (31%) women in the peer support group were breastfeeding at 6 weeks compared to 33/113 (29%) in the control group, a difference of 2% (95% confidence interval = -10% to 14%). The median breastfeeding duration for all women in the peer support group was 2 days compared to 1 day for the control group and the Kaplan-Meier survival plot shows the peer support group overall breastfeeding slightly longer than the control group, with no statistically significant difference by logrank test (P = 0.5). The median breastfeeding duration among primagravidae in the peer support group was 7 days, compared to 3 days for the control group. Among women who started to breastfeed the medians were 72 days in the peer support group and 56 days in the control group. These differences were not statistically significant.
conclusionsPeer support did not increase breastfeeding in this population by a statistically significant amount.
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