Impacts on Breastfeeding Practices of At-Scale Strategies That Combine Intensive Interpersonal Counseling, Mass Media, and Community Mobilization: Results of Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluations in Bangladesh and Viet Nam

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Menon, Purnima ^a   Nguyen, Phuong Hong ^a   Saha, Kuntal Kumar ^a   Khaled, Adiba ^a   Kennedy, Andrew ^a   Tran, Lan Mai ^b   Sanghvi, Tina ^b   Hajeebhoy, Nemat ^b   Baker, Jean ^b   Alayon, Silvia ^c   Afsana, Kaosar ^d   Haque, Raisul ^d   Frongillo, Edward A ^e   Ruel, Marie T ^a   Rawat, Rahul ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United States)

^d RESEARCH AND EVALUATION DIVISION   (Bangladesh)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS MEDIUM; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGISTRATION; VIET NAM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INFANT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEWBORN; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; BREAST FEEDING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS MEDIA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84994383082     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002159     Document Type: Article

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