Methods: Maternity Care Practices
Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) Survey
CDC’s 2024 national survey of Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) launched in January!
The 2024 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 receive an email with 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 2024 comenzó en enero!
La encuesta sobre las mPINC del 2024 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 para recibir 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.
CDC’s contractor Battelle will begin survey administration by calling each hospital that participated in our previous mPINC survey using the phone number of the person who submitted the survey. If you would like to update the mPINC survey point of contact at your hospital, please email your name, phone number, and hospital name and address to mPINC@cdc.gov. Battelle will screen all other hospitals by calling the hospital’s switchboard and asking to be transferred to the mother-baby nurse manager or the manager of the labor and delivery unit. Battelle will determine if the hospital is eligible to participate, and if so, 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 of how we administer our 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 was asked on the 2024 mPINC survey. For more information about the mPINC survey, visit our mPINC FAQs webpage. If you have additional questions, email them to mPINC@cdc.gov.
