Healthcare professional‐led breastfeeding education and support vs usual care: Breastfeeding initiation
Healthcare professional‐led breastfeeding education and support may leads to higher initiation of breastfeeding compared with standard care (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Healthcare professional‐led breastfeeding education and support vs standard care Initiation of breastfeeding · women exposed to interventions intended to promote breastfeeding Healthcare professional‐led breastfeeding education and support may leads to higher initiation of breastfeeding compared with standard care (low certainty). Interventions for promoting the initiation of breastfeeding (2016) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.43 [1.07, 1.92] | 5 studies · 564 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interventions for promoting the initiation of breastfeeding 2016 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.