title: Breast for Success: A Community-Academic Collaboration to Increase Breastfeeding Among High-Risk Mothers in Cleveland.
abstract: Exclusive breastfeeding is the optimal method of infant feeding. However, breastfeeding rates are notable for profound health disparities, for example, among inner-city African American women. Community-academic partnership offers an opportunity to intervene.
  
  
  
  To describe a targeted breastfeeding intervention anchored on community health worker (CHW) home visits to high-risk expectant mothers in Cleveland, Ohio, and to identify specific intervention components that increase the chances (odds) of a mother breastfeeding.
  
  
  
  We used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach and partnered with the Cleveland Department of Public Health MomsFirst Project and Community Endeavors Foundation, Inc., to create a culturally competent breastfeeding education program that "piggy backed" onto MomsFirst programming. Intervention components assessed include those delivered by CHWs (interactive modules and opportunity to select a doula) and by a lactation counselor (pre and postpartum phone calls, post-partum home visits).
  
  
  
  The 602 women who received any intervention component and reported a feeding outcome at 1 month postpartum were a mean age of 22.2 years, 514 (85.4%) were African American, 555 (92%) were unmarried, and 311 (52.4%) had not graduated high school. In multivariate analysis, odds of any breastfeeding were increased by receipt of curricular modules (odds ratio [OR], 1.11; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.05-1.17, for each additional module) and by a postpartum visit (OR, 3.79; 95% CI, 2.06-6.96), and odds of exclusive breastfeeding were significantly increased by a postpartum visit (OR, 2.03; 95% CI, 1.13-3.63).
  
  
  
  Through community-academic partnership, we identified intervention components that significantly increased the odds of breastfeeding in this high-risk population and can inform future collaborations.
authors.forename: Lydia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Furman
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Matthews
authors.forename: Valeria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Killpack
authors.forename: Mary Ann
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: O'Riordan
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology*; D001942:Breast Feeding / Q000523:psychology*; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology*; D009820:Ohio; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014505:Urban Population; D035862:Vulnerable Populations; D055815:Young Adult