At a glance
The Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) Survey measures practices and policies supportive of breastfeeding in hospitals with maternity care services. Learn more about the mPINC Survey.
mPINC Methods
In 2007, ob体育 administered the first mPINC survey. The survey went to every facility in the United States and territories that routinely provided maternity care services.
The initial survey established practice and policy measures related to breastfeeding at hospitals providing maternity care. ob体育 administered the survey every other year from 2007 to 2015 to monitor and examine changes in practices over time. After the 2015 administration, ob体育 redesigned the survey to reflect changes in maternity care practices over the past decade. The redesigned survey launched in 2018.
Survey administration
ob体育's contractor begins survey administration by calling each hospital that participated in the previous mPINC survey. The contractor uses 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 [email protected].
ob体育's contractor then screens all other hospitals. The contractor calls the hospital's switchboard and asks to be transferred to the mother-baby nurse manager or labor and delivery unit manager. The contractor determines if the hospital is eligible to participate. If so, they identify the best person to complete the survey. The survey includes questions about infant nutrition, such as breastfeeding, using formula to feed healthy newborns, and feeding routines.
Because of how ob体育 administers the survey, the person identified to receive the survey one year is not necessarily the person identified to receive the survey in a later cycle.
To ensure survey validity, ob体育 follows the same protocol to identify survey recipients at each hospital as described above.
See mPINC survey questions. For more information about the mPINC survey, visit our mPINC FAQs webpage. If you have additional questions, email them to [email protected].