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Health Professionals and Breastfeeding Counseling: Client and Provider Views

Jeannine Coreil, PhD

Department of Community and Family Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612 USA.

Carol A. Bryant, PhD

Department of Community and Family Health, both in the College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa

Bonita J. Westover, MSPH

Health Communications Research Specialist, Division of HIV/AIDS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia USA.

Doraine Bailey, MA

Division of Nutrition and Health Education, Lexington-Fayette County Health Department, Lexington, Kentucky USA.

Health care providers are the most influential and trusted source of information about breastfeeding, yet many are neither prepared nor able to provide good breastfeeding counseling to their clients. This paper reports findings on low-income mothers' and on providers' perceptions of professional breastfeeding counseling. Data collection included focus group discussions with mothers recruited from public health department clinics in the Southeast USA and who were stratified by age, parity, rural! urban residence and feeding method, and focus groups and individual interviews were conducted with health care providers from the same geographic area. The results of the study indicate a gap between the promotion and support processes for breastfeeding, and point to areas where breastfeeding counseling can be strengthened.

Key Words: breastfeeding counseling • focus group methods • health care professionals • low-income women

Journal of Human Lactation, Vol. 11, No. 4, 265-271 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/089033449501100411
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