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Table 1 Breastfeeding training program

From: Intervention based on BASNEF model increases exclusive breastfeeding in preterm infants in Iran: a randomized controlled trial

First session

Objective:

 • Consultation and counselling to get mothers familiar with methods of breastfeeding premature infants

Training content:

 • Counselling about different breastfeeding methods

 • Defining natural and artificial breastfeeding

Second session

Objective:

 • Counselling to get mothers familiar with several conventional definitions and explanations in breastfeeding

Training content:

 • Defining exclusive breastfeeding

 • Reasons for breast infection in the postpartum period

 • Reasons for infants’ diarrhoea in artificial nutrition

Third session

Objective:

 • Counselling to get mothers familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of natural and artificial feeding of premature infants

Training content:

 • Advantages of natural breastfeeding

 • Wrong reasons for starting artificial breastfeeding by mothers and describing its complications

Fourth session

Objective:

 • Counselling to get mothers familiar with correct techniques of breastfeeding in premature infants

Training content:

 • Reasons for using natural breastfeeding

 • Mentioning correct breastfeeding techniques, explaining them, and correctly implementing them by mothers

Fifth session

Objective:

 • Review of the content and conclusion

Training content:

 • Reasons for using natural breastfeeding

 • Mentioning correct breastfeeding techniques, explaining them, and correctly implementing them by mothers