The findings, which are presented in this paper, are from qualitative research conducted during the intervention development stage of a wider study, planned to test the feasibility of offering financial incentives to encourage the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding in preparation for a cluster randomised controlled trial (ISRCTN44898617 – NOurishing Start for Health (NOSH)).
This paper describes the research conducted during the past four years.
Transcripts were coded thematically with predefined themes (Boyatzis 1998) and analysed using the qualitative data analysis software NVivo 2. The coding themes were developed following a review of the relevant literature, findings from formative research conducted during earlier feasibility and pilot studies and by induction driven by the data.
The coding themes were developed on the basis of findings from formative research conducted during earlier feasibility and pilot studies.
Some justification for this assumption comes from research studies conducted during the past ten years, but methodological limitations of these studies, here reviewed, casts serious doubt on the conclusions claimed.
The research methodology is content analyses, and the data source is multiple focus-groups repeatedly conducted during the entire study period, field notes, and documents obtained.
This research was conducted during the first semester of 2015.
The research procedures are selected on the basis of an expert meeting with paediatricians, paediatric nurses, ethicists, psychologists, pedagogics and parents, and on which research procedures are conducted during the time frame of our study at the departments of the three hospitals we cooperate with.
The study compares its results with previous research conducted by the organisation.
The new study builds on preliminary research conducted at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1980s.
For example, in a research conducted at the University of Pennsylvania, 30percentt of the nurses had committed at least one error during the 28 days of the study [ 6].
