Abstract Objective To verify whether breastfeeding promotion was used as a non-pharmacological intervention for pain relief in hospitalized infants. Methods This observational, cross-sectional, retrospective, and descriptive study was conducted with infants older than 24 hours in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a tertiary hospital from 2019 to 2021. The data were subjected to descriptive and inferential analysis. Ethical precepts were respected. Results Fifty-three infants were included. Breastfeeding was performed in 79.2% of male infants (57.1%), without congenital malformations (92.9%), […]

Abstract Objective To assess women’s knowledge about breastfeeding, using the Knowl Scale. Methods Cross-sectional quantitative observational study, whose sample consisted of 128 pregnant women, users of primary care units in a medium-sized municipality in the west of Paraná, carried out from February to September 2019. The analysis was descriptive and inferential statistics, in which Kuder-Richardson, Cronbach’s alpha, and intraclass correlation tests were used. Results Knowledge was considered between moderate and adequate, whose number of correct answers in the questions individually […]

Abstract Objective To evaluate puerperal women’s knowledge about breastfeeding using the Knowledge Breastfeeding Scale (KBS). Methods This is an exploratory, observational, cross-sectional research with descriptive design, quantitative approach of the analytical type with correlation between variables. It was developed with fifty puerperae in the sector of the Guthrie Test at the Pediatrics Hospital Outpatient Clinic in São José do Rio Preto, in 2022. Data were collected using the Knowledge Scale on Breastfeeding (KNOWL), validated for the Portuguese-Brazilian language, with 25 […]

Abstract The objective of this review is to analyze the production of mobile applications as a support tool for mothers/fathers in the breastfeeding process of premature newborns in the neonatal unit and to identify the mobile applications available on the Google Play Store related to breastfeeding of premature newborns in a neonatal unit. The integrative review was carried out in November 2021 in the databases: Virtual Health Library, PubMed Central Portal, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Cinahl and on the Sucupira platform […]

Abstract Objective Provide a reflection on the scientific evidence related to breastfeeding published in the literature in times of pandemic by COVID-19. Methods Revisions in scope in the MEDLINE/PubMed, CINAHL, BDENF, Scopus and LILACS bases, in the period from 1st January to 15th July 2020. Results From a total of 21.697 articles, 28 were included in the review. The results gathered the lack of evidence enough to elucidate the processes of perinatal transmissibility and the methods of SARS-CoV2-detection related to […]

Abstract The objective of this descriptive, exploratory, study is to classify the current feeding habits of children during their first year the according to social strata. One hundred ninety-seven children from zero to twelve months participated in the study. In order to include various social strata, the data was collected in a health clinic in the rural zone of a country in Maranhão-Brazil. One offered public health care services and the other offered private, or paid, health care services. The […]