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Author: Walker, Jasmine
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1. Walker, Jasmine
Huria, Atima
Buckman, Cierra
Tumin, Dmitry
The Influence of a Sister's Breastfeeding Experience on a Mother's Breastfeeding Behavior: Is There an Intragenerational Effect?
Breastfeeding Medicine 16,11 (Nov 2021): 863-868.
Also: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/bfm.2021.0108
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Keyword(s): Breastfeeding; Sisters

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Objective: Intergenerational transmission of breastfeeding attitudes and behaviors from mother to daughter are well known, but there is limited research on intragenerational transmission of breastfeeding attitudes or behaviors within families. This study aimed to understand how initiation and duration of breastfeeding are influenced by past breastfeeding experiences of sisters among women in a longitudinal population-based cohort.

Methods: Data were obtained on women enrolled in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) who had at least one child enrolled in a substudy of cohort members' children. For each mother in the study, we determined whether any of her sisters also enrolled in the main NLSY study had previously breastfed one of their children.

Results: Mothers whose sister(s) had prior breastfeeding experience were more likely to breastfeed their first-born child on unadjusted analysis (70% versus 45%, chi-square p < 0.001) and had a longer median of breastfeeding duration (median 14.5 versus 12 weeks, rank-sum p = 0.039). However, on a multivariable analysis accounting for potential confounding by maternal characteristics, infant characteristics, and differences among households, sisters' breastfeeding experience was no longer independently associated with the likelihood of breastfeeding initiation (odds ratio: 1.16; confidence interval [95% CI]: 0.73–1.85; p = 0.520) or the hazard of breastfeeding discontinuation (hazard ratio: 0.96; 95% CI: 0.82–1.12; p = 0.598).

Conclusion: After adjusting for socioeconomic characteristics, intragenerational transmission of breastfeeding behavior was negligible among mothers raised in the same household. Other forms of intragenerational transmission (e.g., influence of extended family members) may be more salient influences on women's decision to breastfeed.

Bibliography Citation
Walker, Jasmine, Atima Huria, Cierra Buckman and Dmitry Tumin. "The Influence of a Sister's Breastfeeding Experience on a Mother's Breastfeeding Behavior: Is There an Intragenerational Effect?" Breastfeeding Medicine 16,11 (Nov 2021): 863-868.
2. Walker, Jasmine
Quaile, Mary
Tumin, Dmitry
Rural Employment of Health Care Workers: A Longitudinal Cohort Study
Journal of Rural Health 37,4 (Fall 2021): 705-713.
Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jrh.12541
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Health Care; Occupations; Rural Areas

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Purpose: Preserving and increasing the health care workforce in rural areas has become imperative due to the shortage of health care workers serving rural populations. However, limited data are available on long‐term patterns of employment in rural settings among health care workers.

Methods: We analyzed the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which enrolled a nationally representative sample of adolescents in 1979 and tracked their career outcomes through 2016. Using the US Census Bureau occupation codes, we identified participants who worked in health care occupations, and we classified their employment in rural versus urban areas.

Findings: Of the 1,007 respondents (including 109 doctoral health professionals), 70% worked only in urban locations, 13% worked only in rural locations, and 17% worked in both rural and urban locations during their health care career. Rural upbringing, White race, and female gender were associated with rural employment. Among nondoctoral health professionals, lower educational attainment was associated with increased likelihood of working only in rural settings.

Bibliography Citation
Walker, Jasmine, Mary Quaile and Dmitry Tumin. "Rural Employment of Health Care Workers: A Longitudinal Cohort Study." Journal of Rural Health 37,4 (Fall 2021): 705-713.