What knowledge of breastfeeding do nursing students hold and what are the factors influencing this knowledge: An integrative literature review.

Aim: The aim of this review was to explore the preregistration nursing students' breastfeeding knowledge and the sources they used to develop that knowledge as a health care professional.

Background: New registered nurses do not feel prepared to support breastfeeding women in neonatal and paediatric settings.

Results: Preregistration nursing students have sufficient knowledge of the physiology of lactation but insufficient knowledge on supporting women to decide on the practical aspects of breastfeeding and its challenges for healthy or sick babies.

Design and content validation of an instrument measuring user perception of the persuasive design principles in a breastfeeding mHealth app: A modified Delphi study.

Background: Persuasive design principles are increasingly employed in mHealth apps for motivating users and promoting healthy behaviours among individuals. However, how the persuasive design principles are perceived by the mHealth app users remains unclear.

Aim: To develop and validate the content validity of an instrument designed to measure the user's perceptions of the persuasive design principles assimilated in a breastfeeding mHealth app.

Factors that influence women's decision on infant feeding: An integrative review.

Background: Many women stop breastfeeding earlier than what they intended prior to birth. Although there are many studies that focus on the factors that influence women's antenatal breastfeeding decisions, the factors that influence women's decisions during the continuum of antenatal and postnatal period are less known.

Aim: To understand and synthesise the contemporary factors that influence women's decisions on infant feeding from the antenatal period and across the breastfeeding continuum.

Relationship of health practices with depression and maternal-fetal attachment in adolescent pregnant women: A prospective study.

Aim: To determine the relationship of health practices with depression and maternal-fetal attachment in adolescent pregnant women.

Methods: This prospective study was conducted on 316 adolescent pregnant women with medical records at the health centers in Tehran, Iran. The participants were selected through the complete enumeration.

A qualitative descriptive study of new graduate nurses' experiences supporting breastfeeding women in neonatal settings.

Aim: The aim was to explore the experiences of new graduate nurses who provide support to breastfeeding women in neonatal care settings. The objective of this study was to explore the enablers and barriers that influenced new graduate nurses' self-efficacy.

Background: Nurses have important roles in promoting and educating breastfeeding women in neonatal care settings.

What are women's experiences of immediate skin-to-skin contact at caesarean section birth? An integrative literature review.

Background: Skin-to-skin is a well-established practice at vaginal births promoting the health of women and babies. Facilitation of skin-to-skin at caesarean section birth is growing despite environmental and historical challenges. This is led by the expectancy of women and of health professionals increasingly understanding its importance.

Review of online breastfeeding information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

Background: Breastfeeding provides the healthiest start to life, but breastfeeding rates amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is lower than non-Indigenous women.

Aim: To assess the accuracy, quality and appropriate presentation of online breastfeeding information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Australia.

Methods: An online search conducted in Google, Bing and Yahoo search engines to identify any breastfeeding websites that provided information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

Developing and testing a mobile application for breastfeeding support: The Milky Way application.

Background: Supporting women to continue breastfeeding is a global challenge. The Milky Way Program is an effective face to face intervention to increase breastfeeding rates up to six months postpartum. The sustainability and access to the Milky Way Program could be enhanced by transforming it into a mobile application allowing women to access relevant information from their own place at a convenient time.

Digital explanations and nursing students' perception of learning science.

A thorough understanding of human physiology and anatomy are pivotal in the preparation of competent nursing students for clinical practice. However, anatomy and physiology are among the most conceptually perplexing subjects that nursing students will encounter throughout the duration of their course. Research in other science-based contexts has demonstrated a positive relationship between student-generated digital media and learning scientific concepts.

The Milky Way educational and support programme: Structure, content and strategies.

Background: Health professionals have put much effort into supporting women to continue breastfeeding up to six months and beyond. The majority of those efforts have not been successful for primiparous women. Primiparous women who engaged in the Milky Way Programme had an improvement in breastfeeding rates of almost 50% at six months when compared to women in a control group.

Supporting women to achieve breastfeeding to six months postpartum - The theoretical foundations of a successful program.

Background: Although the benefits of breastfeeding to six months are well-established, only about half of Australian women succeed. The factors associated with successful breastfeeding are rarely translated into effective interventions. A new educational and support program, called the Milky Way program has been demonstrated to be effective in supporting women to achieve prolonged breastfeeding.