Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · Licensed source edition
Breastfeeding at the workplace: a systematic review of interventions to improve workplace environments to facilitate breastfeeding among working women
Originally published 2021-04-29 · International Journal for Equity in Health
BMC · DOI 10.1186/s12939-021-01432-3 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Reviews spaces, breaks, policies and interpersonal support, grounding everyday workplace care in a multilevel evidence base rather than a room alone.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
What combination of time, space and support would make a parent’s feeding choice workable?
Reviews spaces, breaks, policies and interpersonal support, grounding everyday workplace care in a multilevel evidence base rather than a room alone.
Study context
28 quantitative and nine qualitative studies published in 2008–2019 on work and breastfeeding.
Age / stage: Pregnant, breastfeeding and recently postpartum working adults.
Read with three questions
- Which interventions and breastfeeding outcomes were most often studied?
- How did individual, interpersonal and organizational changes complement one another?
- Where did limited study quality prevent firm claims about wellbeing or productivity?
Keep the limits in view
Heterogeneous observational, experimental and qualitative evidence does not establish a universal package or an individual feeding outcome; the review calls for stronger studies.
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Mireya Vilar-Compte; Sonia Hernández-Cordero; Mónica Ancira-Moreno; Soraya Burrola-Méndez; Isabel Ferre-Eguiluz; Isabel Omaña; Cecilia Pérez Navarro (2021). Breastfeeding at the workplace: a systematic review of interventions to improve workplace environments to facilitate breastfeeding among working women International Journal for Equity in Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-021-01432-3
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