Implementation and evaluation of community-based drop-in centres for breastfeeding support in Victoria, Australia

• Main Authors: Rhian L. Cramer (Author), Helen L. McLachlan (Author), Touran Shafiei (Author), Lisa H. Amir (Author), Meabh Cullinane (Author), Rhonda Small (Author), Della A. Forster (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background While Australia has high breastfeeding initiation, there is a sharp decline in the first weeks postpartum and this continues throughout the first year. Supporting breastfeeding In Local Communities (SILC) was a three-arm cluster randomised controlled trial to determine whether ea...