Effectiveness of community-based peer support for mothers to improve their breastfeeding practices: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

We searched for evidence regarding community-based peer support for mothers in databases, such as PubMed/MEDLINE, the Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Web of Science, SocINDEX, and PsycINFO. We selected three outcome variables for breastfeeding practices, namely, exclusive breastfeeding duration, breastfee...

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Main Authors: Prakash Shakya, Mika Kondo Kunieda, Momoko Koyama, Sarju Sing Rai, Moe Miyaguchi, Sumi Dhakal, Su Sandy, Bruno Fokas Sunguya, Masamine Jimba
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5433692?pdf=render