2020 journal article

Exploring North Carolina Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers' Attitudes Towards Breastfeeding and Infant Feeding Education Practices

JOURNAL OF HUMAN LACTATION, 36(4), 766–775.

By: N. Singletary n, L. Goodell n & A. Fogleman n

author keywords: breastfeeding; breastfeeding promotion; bottle feeding; formula feeding; lactation education; high school teachers; middle school teachers
MeSH headings : Attitude to Health; Breast Feeding / psychology; Breast Feeding / statistics & numerical data; Consumer Behavior / statistics & numerical data; Family / psychology; Humans; Infant; Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Infant, Newborn; North Carolina; School Health Services / standards; School Health Services / statistics & numerical data; School Teachers / psychology; Surveys and Questionnaires
TL;DR: North Carolina Family and Consumer Sciences teachers have positive attitudes towards teaching about breastfeeding at the secondary school level, and teachers’ infant feeding education practices are described. (via Semantic Scholar)
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5. Gender Equality (Web of Science)
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Added: September 16, 2019

Background The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF recommend that secondary schools include infant feeding education in the curriculum. However, little attention has been given to the study of educators’ views and practices regarding infant feeding education.