Breast-feeding promotion in hospitals and prospective breast-feeding rates during the first year of life in two national surveys 1997–1998 and 2017–2019 in Germany

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ID15091163
AutoresNele Hockamp (St. Josef-Hospital, autor de correspondencia), Constanze Burak (St. Josef-Hospital), Erika Sievers, Silvia Rudloff (0000-0001-6143-963X, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), Anja Burmann (0000-0002-6989-1230, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering), Merlin Thinnes (Ruhr University Bochum), Johanna Zahn (Ruhr University Bochum), Thomas Lücke (Ruhr University Bochum), Mathilde Kersting (0000-0001-6555-6104, Ruhr University Bochum)
Año2021
Volumen24
Número9
Páginas2411-2423
Fecha de publicación2021-06-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPublic Health Nutrition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1368-9800 • E-ISSN: 1475-2727
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1368980021001099
PMID33722333
OpenAlexW3139495252
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas36

Objectives: The present study aimed to assess the current state of breast-feeding promotion in hospitals and the prevalence of breast-feeding during the first year of life in Germany and to compare the results with a study 20 years earlier. Design: In the studies on ‘breast-feeding and infant nutrition in Germany’ named ‘SuSe’, a cross-sectional survey in hospitals was combined with a subsequent prospective survey of breast-feeding and infant nutrition during the first year of life (0·5, 2, 4, 6 and 12 months after birth) in mother–infant pairs who were recruited in the hospitals. Written questionnaires and phone calls were used in SuSe I and web-based questionnaires in SuSe II. Breast-feeding promotion and prevalence were evaluated using recommendations from the WHO and the UNICEF. Setting: Two nationwide surveys SuSe I (1997–1998) and SuSe II (2017–2019). Participants: In SuSe I, 177 hospitals and 1717 mother–infant pairs and in SuSe II 109 hospitals and 962 mother–infant pairs were included. Results: In SuSe II, hospitals implemented seven of the WHO ‘Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding’ to a greater extent than the hospitals in SuSe I. More mothers exclusively breastfed for 4 months (57 % v . 33 %) and continued breast-feeding until 6 (78 % v . 48 %) and 12 months (41 % v . 13 %). In both studies, exclusive breast-feeding decreased between 4 and 6 months of age due to the introduction of complementary feeding. Conclusions: In Germany, breast-feeding habits have come closer to the recommendations over the last 20 years

Breast feeding · Breastfeeding · Family medicine · Political science · Promotion (chess · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences · Child and Adolescent Health · Demography · Medicine · Pediatric health and respiratory diseases · Pediatrics

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