BOOSTing breastfeeding rates – a new protocol

19/01/2022 10 min
BOOSTing breastfeeding rates – a new protocol

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Dr Yukiko Washio at RTI International and her colleagues at Temple University and Christiana Care have undertaken intervention research to increase breastfeeding in low-income women in the United States. Based on this and two pilot studies in the US and UK, they set up a research project using their new BOOST protocol: using financial incentives to increase breastfeeding among women registered on the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) programme.Read the original article:  http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034510 in Research Features