Feasibility of the breastfeeding peer support application—perspectives of peer supporters and breastfeeding mothers
Riikka Ikonen, Hannakaisa Niela-Vilen · 2025
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Riikka Ikonen and Hannakaisa Niela-Vilen test a breastfeeding support app in Finland in a 2025 feasibility study. Peer support by phone app is a growing way to give nursing mothers advice, comfort, and shared experience. The team asked both sides, trained peer supporters and mothers, whether the app fit their daily lives.
Eight supporters joined group talks and eighty-one mothers answered a survey inside the app in 2022. Supporters could set their own availability, which kept the load sane, though duty pulled hard and vanishing chats frustrated some. Mothers rated the app high on fit and ease whatever their age or schooling, and most solved their problems. The authors call the tool promising and ready for wider use.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Riikka Ikonen, Hannakaisa Niela-Vilen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |