Thesis (M.S.)--Eastern Illinois University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-55).

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Aberdeen University, 2008. / Title from web page (viewed on June 26, 2009). With: A clinical review of breastfeeding / Pat Hoddinott, David Tappin, Charlotte Wright. BMJ. 2008: 336, 881-887. With: Effectiveness of a breastfeeding peer coaching intervention on breastfeeding rates in rural Scotland / Pat Hoddonott, Amanda J. Lee, Roisin Pill. Birth. 2006: 33 (1) 27-36. With: One-to-one or group based peer support for breastfeeding? Women's perceptions of a breastfeeding peer coaching intervention/ Pat Hoddinott, Maretta Chalmers, Roison Pill. Birth. 2006: 33(2), 139-146. With: Health professionals, implementation and outcomes: reflections on a complex intervention to improve breastfeeding rates in primary care / Pat Hoddinott, Roisin Pill, Maretta Chalmers. Family practice. 2007: 24, 84-91. With: Recruitment issues when primary care population clusters are used in randomised controlled clinical trials: climbing mountains or pushing boulders uphill / Pat Hoddonott ... et al. Contemporary clinical trials. 2007: 28: 232-241. With: Effectiveness of a policy to provide breastfeeding groups (BIG) for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in primary care--: a cluster randomised controlled trial / Pat Hoddinott ... et al. BMJ 2009: 338 a 3026. With: Randomised controlled trials of complex interventions: understanding why a trial of a policy to provide breastfeeding groups was more effective in some primary care organisation than others / Pat Hoddonott, Jane Britten, Roison Pill. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2006. / Thesis advisor: C. Charles Mate-Kole. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in General Psychology." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-49). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A. in anthropology)--Washington State University, May 2010. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 4, 2010). "Department of Anthropology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-45).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Texas, May, 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Sociology)--Vanderbilt University, May 2010. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

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This thesis describes two primary care intervention studies which aimed to improve breastfeeding initiation, duration and satisfaction in Scotland. I review the evidence for breastfeeding interventions in group settings and propose a framework for their design and evaluation. A clinical overview of breastfeeding was commissioned by The British Medical Journal. Three papers describe a preliminary action research controlled intervention study which significantly increased breastfeeding at 2 weeks after birth. A qualitative paper provides insights into why women preferred groups to one-to-one peer support. The intervention was not uniformly effective in the four intervention areas and mixed method data suggests that the quality of inter- and intra- health professional team relationships may have contributed to effectiveness. This preliminary study informed the design of a cluster randomised controlled trial of a policy to provide breastfeeding groups for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in primary care. A paper describes the processes, barriers and facilitators to recruiting primary care organisations to participate and recommends using a qualitative ethnographic approach. The breastfeeding group intervention had no effect and a paper describes the outcomes, the amount of intervention delivered and the costs. A model of health service attributes necessary for a locality to successfully deliver the policy emerged from the prospectively analysed mixed method case studies, and appears to explain breastfeeding outcomes. A policy to provide breastfeeding groups can be effective if the health service context is favourable as it was in the preliminary study. However in the trial, the negative aspects of the current health service system outweighed any positive effects from the intervention. I propose embedding randomised controlled trials of complex interventions within qualitative research to evaluate context.