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ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2014

Effectiveness of a 3-hour breastfeeding course for family physicians.

Anjana Srinivasan, Lisa Graves, Vinita D'Souza

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Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. A Critical Review of Instruments Measuring Breastfeeding Attitudes, Knowledge, and Social Support.Journal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant Association · 2017
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anjana Srinivasan
Lisa Graves
Vinita D'Souza

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo test the effectiveness of a 3-hour course on breastfeeding for family physicians.

designA previously validated questionnaire testing confidence in, attitudes toward, and knowledge of breastfeeding issues was administered to participants 1 week before and 2 months after taking the Breastfeeding Basics for the Practicing Physician course.

settingCanada.

participantsFamily physicians and residents who attended the Breastfeeding Basics for the Practicing Physician course between July 2008 and December 2010.

interventionsParticipants' scores on the questionnaires that were filled out before and after the course were collected and analyzed.

Indexed as

Breast FeedingProgram EvaluationCanadaClinical CompetenceFamily PracticeFemaleHumansMaleSurveys and Questionnaires

Identifiers

PMID25642487
PMCPMC4264826

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