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Effectiveness Of Early Postpartum Follow-Up On Breastfeeding Attrition, Joyce Bouknight-Gant

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Translational and Clinical Research Projects

This quality improvement project evaluated the effectiveness of early postpartum follow-up in decreasing breastfeeding attrition rates among postpartum mothers in the first three weeks after delivery. Of special interest is the ability to identify possible differences among maternal characteristics such as age, ethnicity, race or parity. Although the benefits of breastfeeding are widely known and breastfeeding in the United States continues to rise, the breastfeeding rates among African-American women and other races remain lower with a notable significant gap. As of 2013, African American mothers lagged behind their white and Hispanic counterparts in the practice by at least 20 percentage …