Methods: Maternity Care Practices
Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) Survey
Alert_02Less than half of mPINC surveys have been submitted!!!Alert_02
CDC’s 2018 national survey of Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) is currently in the field. ALL hospitals with maternity services in the United States and Territories have been contacted at least once.
When contacting hospitals, an initial screening call is placed to determine if the hospital is eligible to participate and, if eligible, the hospital is sent an email with a link to complete the survey. Of facilities that have received their survey, less than half have submitted their responses. If you were contacted to complete the survey and do not believe you have received it yet, please remember to look for an e-mail from CDCMPINCSURVEY@battelle.org. Please check your junk e-mail folder, too.
Please share this information with your partners who may wish to reach out to hospitals in their communities to encourage them to participate in the survey. Periodic updates on the screening process will be available here and through the US Breastfeeding Committee’s (USBS’s) Weekly Wire.
Methods
In 2007, CDC administered the first national survey of maternity care practices related to breastfeeding to every facility in the United States and territories that routinely provided maternity care services. Known as the Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey, this survey is a national census of facilities routinely providing maternity care.
The initial survey established measures of practices in place at intrapartum care facilities across the United States and territories and showed how the practices varied by state. CDC administered the survey every other year thereafter until 2015 to monitor and examine changes in practices over time. After the 2015 administration, CDC redesigned the survey to reflect changes in maternity care practices that had occurred in the United States over the past decade. The newly designed survey launched in 2018.
Each survey year we screen hospitals by telephone. We contact the mother-baby nurse manager or the manager of the labor and delivery unit to help identify the best person to complete a survey that includes questions about infant nutrition, such as breastfeeding, using formula to feed healthy newborns, and feeding routines. Because we follow this process each time that we administer a new survey, the person identified to receive the survey one year is not necessarily the person identified to receive the survey in a later cycle.
