Author (yr) | Country (City) | Population (n) | Design | Type of BF intervention | Outcome variable | Type of analysis | Differences & associations | Quality assessment |
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Bai Y, Wunderlich SM. (2013) [42] | USA (New Jersey) | Female staff and faculty + 18 years, currently BF or had BF within 18 months prior to the study (n = 113) | Cross-sectional | -Designated spaces for BF1 or expressing milk -Support from colleagues | Duration of EBF2 | Pearson’s r correlation analysis | Positive and significant correlation between duration of EBF and workplace support – supervisor support, lactation space (r = 0.26), and technical support – fridge, pump (r = 0.71) | Low |
Basrowi RW, Sulistomo AB, Adi NP, Vandenplas Y. (2015) [43] | Indonesia (Jakarta) | Female employees of 3 government offices and 3 factories whose children were between 6 and 36 months old (n = 186) | Cross-sectional | -BF education -Designated spaces for BF or expressing milk | EBF at 6 months | Chi-square | EBF at 6 months was higher among women with a dedicated lactation space (OR3 = 2.62) and among women with a breastfeeding support program at workplace (OR = 5.93) | Very low |
Dabritz HA, Hinton BG, Babb J. (2009) [44] | USA (California) | Mothers who resided in Yolo County at the time of delivery, infant was between 0 and 8 months old at the time they signed up to participate (n = 399) | Cross-sectional | -Designated spaces for BF or expressing milk -Flexible scheduling to support milk expression -Support from colleagues | Almost EBF, BF and formula feeding (mixed feeding), infant formula feeding only (at 6 months) | Polytomous logistic regression that incorporated a proportional odds model | Not statistically significant results | Low |
Smith JP, McIntyre E, Craig L, Javanparast S, Strazdins L, Mortensen K (2013) [45] | Australia | Female employees with children aged two years and younger (n = 356) | Cross-sectional | -Written policies to support BF employees -Flexible scheduling to support milk expression -Designated spaces for BF or expressing milk -Work from home (i.e., home-office) or reduced hours -Support from colleagues | EBF | Bivariate | EBF was significantly more prevalent among women who had flexibility to BF or express milk at the workplace, or worked in a place with a written policy to support breastmilk expression and BF at work | Very low |