Interprofessional undergraduate breastfeeding education: a scoping review
Elaine Lehane, Aoife Fleming, Edina Hanley, Roisin O’Donovan, Helen Mulcahy, Siobhan Ward, Liz Cogan, Margaret Murphy, Aoife Long, Patricia Leahy-Warren · 2025
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Elaine Lehane and nine co-authors reviewed how health students learn to support breastfeeding as a shared team skill, in a 2025 scoping review. Good support from health workers helps mothers succeed, and steady support calls for shared training across jobs. The team asked how often degree courses teach the topic across professions together.
They searched five databases and three grey sources, then screened over a thousand records. Only 14 studies fit their rules. Courses did reach mixed student groups, but true shared learning stayed rare. Students mostly sat side by side rather than learning from each other, and the shared skills were seldom named as course goals. Tests of learning were rarely reported, and few studies tracked lasting change in practice.
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| CREATOR | Elaine Lehane, Aoife Fleming, Edina Hanley, Roisin O’Donovan, Helen Mulcahy, Siobhan Ward, Liz Cogan, Margaret Murphy, Aoife Long, Patricia Leahy-Warren |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |