Methods: Maternity Care Practices
Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) Survey
The 2022 mPINC survey will include all hospitals in U.S. states and territories that provide maternity care services. Similar to past surveys, screening phone calls will be made to hospitals on a rolling basis. These screening phone calls will be used to (1) determine whether a hospital is eligible to complete the survey, and (2) obtain the email address for the best point of contact to email a hospital-specific link to the survey. The survey will be online only. Learn more.
La encuesta nacional de los CDC sobre las Prácticas de Nutrición y Cuidados Infantiles en Maternidades (mPINC) del 2022 comenzará en Abril!La encuesta sobre las mPINC del 2022 incluirá a todos los hospitales en los estados y territorios de los EE. UU. que brinden servicios de atención médica de maternidad. De forma similar a encuestas anteriores, se harán llamadas telefónicas de preselección a los hospitales en forma continua. Estas llamadas de preselección se usarán para (1) determinar si un hospital es elegible para completar la encuesta, y (2) obtener la dirección de correo electrónico de la persona de contacto más indicada, que recibirá un mensaje con un enlace a la encuesta específico para cada hospital. La encuesta solo se hará en línea. Infórmese más.
Methods
In 2007, CDC administered the first Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey to every facility in the United States and territories that routinely provided maternity care services.
The initial survey established measures of practices and policies related to breastfeeding that are implemented at hospitals providing maternity care. CDC administered the survey every other year from 2007 to 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 over the past decade. The redesigned 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.
It is extremely important for the validity of the survey that we follow the same protocol to identify survey recipients at each hospital as described above.
See what is being asked on the 2022 mPINC survey. For more information about the mPINC survey, visit our Hospital FAQs webpage. If you have additional questions, email them to mPINC@cdc.gov.
