ReviewNutrients2017
Ethical Challenges in Infant Feeding Research.
Review in Nutrients, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05425394 (A Study of Effects of Delay in the First Bathing Time of Newborns on the Rate of Body Temperature and the Rate of Exclusive Breastfeeding), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Study of Effects of Delay in the First Bathing Time of Newborns on the Rate of Body Temperature and the Rate of Exclusive Breastfeeding: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Association Between Exclusive Breastfeeding and Diarrhoea Morbidity in Infants Aged 0-6 Months: A Rapid Review and Meta-Analysis.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Breastfeeding and the Risk of Infant Illness in Asia: A Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Mother's Own Milk and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2019Pooled it
- Infant formula feeding practices associated with rapid weight gain: A systematic review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2018Pooled it
- Donor Human Milk Protects against Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2018Pooled it
- Effectiveness of a new breastfeeding counselling intervention on breastfeeding prevalence, infant growth velocity and postpartum weight loss in overweight women: a randomized controlled trial.International breastfeeding journal · 2025Trial
- Letter to the Editor about the qualitative study on breastfeeding experiences: sociocultural limitations in the lives of breastfeeding womenRevista colombiana de obstetricia y ginecologia · 2024Article
- Breast feeding in infants diagnosed with phenylketonuria (PKU): a scoping review.BMJ paediatrics open · 2023Article
- Maasai mother's knowledge on complementary feeding practices and nutritional status of children aged 6-24 months in Monduli District, Arusha, Tanzania: A case study of Naitolia village.Food science & nutrition · 2023Article
- Defining ethical challenge(s) in healthcare research: a rapid review.BMC medical ethics · 2021Review
- Integrating approaches for quality guideline development in LactaMap, an online lactation care support system.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
- From depression to dietary guidelines: a life's journey.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2018Article
- Maternal obesity during lactation may protect offspring from high fat diet-induced metabolic dysfunction.Nutrition & diabetes · 2018Article
- Nutrients in Infancy: Progress and Prospects.Nutrients · 2017Article
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Abstract
Infants have a complex set of nutrient requirements to meet the demands of their high metabolic rate, growth, and immunological and cognitive development. Infant nutrition lays the foundation for health throughout life. While infant feeding research is essential, it must be conducted to the highest ethical standards. The objective of this paper is to discuss the implications of developments in infant nutrition for the ethics of infant feeding research and the implications for obtaining informed consent. A search was undertaken of the papers in the medical literature using the PubMed, Science Direct, Web of Knowledge, Proquest, and CINAHL databases. From a total of 9303 papers identified, the full text of 87 articles that contained discussion of issues in consent in infant feeding trials were obtained and read and after further screening 42 papers were included in the results and discussion. Recent developments in infant nutrition of significance to ethics assessment include the improved survival of low birth weight infants, increasing evidence of the value of breastfeeding and evidence of the lifelong importance of infant feeding and development in the first 1000 days of life in chronic disease epidemiology. Informed consent is a difficult issue, but should always include information on the value of preserving breastfeeding options. Project monitoring should be cognisant of the long term implications of growth rates and early life nutrition.
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