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Table 5 Summary of Publications Included in the Realist Analysis Following a Cohort Design. Realist Review on “How Do Breastfeeding Workplace Interventions Work?”

From: How do breastfeeding workplace interventions work?: a realist review

COHORT DESIGN

Lead Author; Publication Year

Brasileiro et al. [46]; 2012

 Study Population

Formally working mothers who RTW before the child had reached six months of life;

Maternal age: 52.0% ≤28 years;

Paternal age: 53.0% ≤30 years;

Marital status: 94.5% with partner;

Socioeconomic level: 14% high, 38.0, 12.4% low;

N = 200

 Country

Brazil

 Intervention

Daycare center

Lactation facilities

 Outcomes

Discontinue BF before 4 months:

 • Not having a 30-min break every work shift: OR = 4.10, 95% CI: 1.81–9.26, p < 0.0001

 • NS difference for presence of daycare center at the workplace

 • NS for number of working hours per day

 • NS for presence of lactation facilities

  1. 95% CI 95% confidence interval, BF breastfeeding, NS not significant, OR odds ratio, RTW return to work