2009 Press Releases
Can breastfeeding support services be improved?
26.05.2009
Do you breastfeed or bottle feed your baby? Are you happy with the support services provided by Public Health Nurses in Ireland?
26.05.2009
Do you breastfeed or bottle feed your baby? Are you happy with the support services provided by Public Health Nurses in Ireland?
These are just some of the questions being addressed in an Infant Feeding Survey which seeks to review breastfeeding support services provided by Public Health Nurses in Ireland.
Becoming a new parent is a very special and life changing time for everyone and breastfeeding can contribute significantly to the future health and well-being of babies and their mothers. Public Health Nurses in Ireland deliver a preventative health care service to mothers and babies that is essentially universal and begins in the postnatal period. The main aim of the study is to evaluate the responsiveness, timeliness and appropriateness of public health nursing breastfeeding services.
The survey has been compiled by midwifery/public health nursing researchers in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at University College Cork (UCC) on behalf of the Health Service Executive (HSE), and approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of Cork Teaching Hospitals. The results of the survey will be used to inform recommendations on how the breastfeeding support service can be improved.
To date, 4,000 questionnaires have been posted out to mothers nationwide in association with http://www.eumom.ie (Parenting and Pregnancy Resource website). Mothers who have infants less than 2 years of age who have not received a questionnaire are invited to access the information online via www.eumom.ie or http://www.surveymonkey.com/mothersquestionnaire.
The survey is confidential and for each completed questionnaire, a contribution will be made to the Irish Sudden Infant Death Association (ISIDA).
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Becoming a new parent is a very special and life changing time for everyone and breastfeeding can contribute significantly to the future health and well-being of babies and their mothers. Public Health Nurses in Ireland deliver a preventative health care service to mothers and babies that is essentially universal and begins in the postnatal period. The main aim of the study is to evaluate the responsiveness, timeliness and appropriateness of public health nursing breastfeeding services.
The survey has been compiled by midwifery/public health nursing researchers in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at University College Cork (UCC) on behalf of the Health Service Executive (HSE), and approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of Cork Teaching Hospitals. The results of the survey will be used to inform recommendations on how the breastfeeding support service can be improved.
To date, 4,000 questionnaires have been posted out to mothers nationwide in association with http://www.eumom.ie (Parenting and Pregnancy Resource website). Mothers who have infants less than 2 years of age who have not received a questionnaire are invited to access the information online via www.eumom.ie or http://www.surveymonkey.com/mothersquestionnaire.
The survey is confidential and for each completed questionnaire, a contribution will be made to the Irish Sudden Infant Death Association (ISIDA).
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