Highlights
The mPINC™ Ten Steps Assessment Tool helps to assess how a hospital implements the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. The tool uses data from ob体育's Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey. The tool can help guide practices and policies supporting breastfeeding, and identify and prioritize improvement efforts.
The mPINC™ Ten Steps Assessment Tool helps to assess how a hospital implements the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. The tool uses data from ob体育's Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey. The tool can help guide practices and policies supporting breastfeeding, and identify and prioritize improvement efforts.
About the mPINC™ Ten Steps Assessment Tool
This tool helps assess how a hospital implements each of the (Ten Steps). The tool identifies, or crosswalks, which items from ob体育's Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC™) survey align with each step. The Ten Steps are based on WHO's and UNICEF's evidence-based .
This tool is intended for:
- State and local health departments.
- Breastfeeding coalitions.
- Institutions and organizations working with hospitals to improve maternity care practices.
Hospitals can also use the tool to assess their own implementation of the . In addition, hospitals can use the tool to highlight areas of strength and those that need improvement. This tool can help guide implementation of maternity care practices and policies supporting breastfeeding. It can also help identify and prioritize improvement efforts.
This tool does not correspond to, or replace, Baby-Friendly USA's on-site assessments or the Baby-Friendly designation.
Although this tool assesses many aspects of each of the , it does not assess every aspect. Every aspect of each step cannot be assessed using mPINC data alone. This tool is not an additional mPINC™ survey. Instead, it presents a crosswalk between mPINC items and the Ten Steps. The tool is designed to help with assessment efforts.
mPINC™ and the Ten Steps
ob体育's mPINC survey is a national survey of maternity care practices related to breastfeeding. Approximately every other year, facilities routinely providing maternity care in the United States and territories are invited for survey participation. Only hospitals and birthing centers inside hospitals are eligible to participate. As of 2018, freestanding birth centers are not eligible to participate.
ob体育 calculates total mPINC scores for all participating hospitals. These scores indicate hospitals' overall level of maternity care practices and policies that support optimal infant feeding. ob体育 also calculates subscores across multiple maternity care practice subdomains. ob体育 sends hospitals these scores and their responses to each scored mPINC item in their mPINC Hospital Report.
The mPINC scoring algorithm is not aligned with the . A hospital's total mPINC score or subscores do not necessarily indicate how well a hospital has implemented the Ten Steps. However, a hospital can use many mPINC items and responses to help assess how it implements each of the Ten Steps. This tool is designed to help with this process.