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    Understanding process and context in breastfeeding support interventions: the potential of qualitative research

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    Publication date
    2017
    Author
    Leeming, D.
    Marshall, J.
    Locke, Abigail
    Keyword
    Breastfeeding support; Process evaluation; Qualitative research; Phenomenology; Ethnography; Discourse analysis
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    © 2017 Wiley. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Leeming D, Marshall J and Locke A (2017) Understanding process and context in breastfeeding support interventions: the potential of qualitative research. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 13(4): e12407, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12407. This article may be used for non- commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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    Considerable effort has been made in recent years to gain a better understanding of the effectiveness of different interventions for supporting breastfeeding. However, research has tended to focus primarily on measuring outcomes and has paid comparatively little attention to the relational, organisational and wider contextual processes that may impact delivery of an intervention. Supporting a woman with breastfeeding is an interpersonal encounter that may play out differently in different contexts, despite the apparently consistent aims and structure of an intervention. We consider the limitations of randomised controlled trials for building understanding of the ways in which different components of an intervention may impact breastfeeding women and how the messages conveyed through interactions with breastfeeding supporters might be received. We argue that qualitative methods are ideally suited to understanding psychosocial processes within breastfeeding interventions and have been under-used. After briefly reviewing qualitative research to date into experiences of receiving and delivering breastfeeding support, we discuss the potential of theoretically-informed qualitative methodologies to provide fuller understanding of intervention processes by focusing on three examples: phenomenology, ethnography and discourse analysis. The paper concludes by noting some of the epistemological differences between qualitative methodologies and the broadly positivist approach of trials, and we suggest there is a need for further dialogue as to how researchers might bridge these differences in order to develop a fuller and more holistic understanding of how best to support breastfeeding women.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/11122
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    Leeming D, Marshall J and Locke A. Understanding process and context in breastfeeding support interventions: the potential of qualitative research. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 13(4): e12407.
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12407
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