Global evidence synthesis and UK idiosyncrasy: why have recent UK trials had no significant effects on breastfeeding rates?

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022
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2. Counselling interventions to enable women to initiate and continue breastfeeding: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International breastfeeding journal · 2019
   Pooled it
3. A realist review of one-to-one breastfeeding peer support experiments conducted in developed country settings.Maternal & child nutrition · 2018
   Pooled it
4. Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
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5. Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012
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6. Effectiveness of Baby-friendly community health services on exclusive breastfeeding and maternal satisfaction: a pragmatic trial.Maternal & child nutrition · 2016
   Trial
7. Collecting real-time infant feeding and support experience: co-participatory pilot study of mobile health methodology.International breastfeeding journal · 2025
   Article
8. Emotional and informational social support from health visitors and breastfeeding outcomes in the UK.International breastfeeding journal · 2023
   Article
9. Testing the buffering hypothesis: Breastfeeding problems, cessation, and social support in the UK.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2022
   Article
10. Self-conscious emotions and breastfeeding support: A focused synthesis of UK qualitative research.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022
    Review
11. The experiences of trained breastfeeding support providers that influence how breastfeeding support is practised: A protocol for a qualitative evidence synthesis.PloS one · 2021
    Article
12. UK mothers' experiences of bottle refusal by their breastfed baby.Maternal & child nutrition · 2020
    Article
13. Typologies of postnatal support and breastfeeding at two months in the UK.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2020
    Article
14. Using the behaviour change wheel to explore infant feeding peer support provision; insights from a North West UK evaluation.International breastfeeding journal · 2019
    Article
15. Understanding process and context in breastfeeding support interventions: The potential of qualitative research.Maternal & child nutrition · 2017
    Review
16. Pressure and judgement within a dichotomous landscape of infant feeding: a grounded theory study to explore why breastfeeding women do not access peer support provision.Maternal & child nutrition · 2017
    Article
17. Breastfeeding in England: time trends 2005-2006 to 2012-2013 and inequalities by area profile.Maternal & child nutrition · 2016
    Article
18. Making use of expertise: a qualitative analysis of the experience of breastfeeding support for first-time mothers.Maternal & child nutrition · 2015
    Article
19. UK women's experiences of breastfeeding and additional breastfeeding support: a qualitative study of Baby Café services.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2015
    Article
20. A new era for intervention development studies.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2015
    Article

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