I have received a request for help with a research project.  The contact
person is Dr. Karen Metzguer.  She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics
and an RN at the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill.  She and her research group are starting a research project aimed at
educating and informing day care providers about breastfeeding so that they
will be more supportive of breastfeeding mothers who have gone back to work,
and whose kids they are caring for.  The researchers want to know about
knowledge and attitudes towards breastfeeding BEFORE they conduct a training
session for the day care providers, and knowledge and attitudes towards
breastfeeding AFTER the training session.  They have heard, anecdotally,
that it is not worth the time and effort to try to change people's minds.
They are hoping that isn't true, but need before/after surveys to see if
what they are doing works.

If anyone has references, survey instruments, ideas, or suggestions, please
reply both to the list and private email to Dr. Metzguer at

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Thanks!!

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Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D.                         email: [log in to unmask]
Anthropology Department                               phone: (409) 845-5256
Texas A&M University                                    fax: (409) 845-4070
College Station, TX  77843-4352
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