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Article Dans Une Revue Nutrients Année : 2022

Workplace Lactation Support: A Cross-Sectional Study in a University Hospital and a Perinatal Network

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Return to work negatively affects the initiation and duration of breastfeeding. Our study’s objective was to assess the percentage of departments in Auvergne with an appropriate space for pumping milk at work. Our cross-sectional survey investigated the arrangements for facilitating the continuation of breastfeeding on return to work at all departments at the Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital Center and perinatal (obstetric and pediatric) departments in this region. Our principal endpoint was the percentage of departments reporting that they had a lactation room—a room where nursing mothers can express milk—and whether it met the criteria defined by the French Labor Code. Among 98 respondents, 44 departments (44.9%) did not offer lactation rooms; of the remaining 54 departments, only 11 rooms met the legal requirements. All perinatal departments offered lactation rooms. The availability of a lactation room was associated with other breastfeeding support, such as a break period for expressing milk (p < 0.0001) and the availability of a refrigerator to store it (p = 0.01). Almost half the responding departments did not offer a lactation room where mothers could breastfeed or pump their milk. Measures must be envisioned to facilitate the pumping of breast milk by French women returning to work.
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Chloé Barasinski, Marina Stankovic, Anne Debost-Legrand, Amélie Delabaere, Françoise Vendittelli, et al.. Workplace Lactation Support: A Cross-Sectional Study in a University Hospital and a Perinatal Network. Nutrients, 2022, 14 (17), pp.3463. ⟨10.3390/nu14173463⟩. ⟨hal-03759551⟩
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