FACTORS THAT INTERFERE WITH DONATION OF HUMAN MILK: INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze Brazilian scientific literature related to the factors that interfere with donation of human milk. Integrative review of databases Literatura Latino-Americana em Ciências da Saúde, National Library of Medicine and Sci Verse Scopus Top Cited. No time frame was established and data was collected in January 2016. The descriptors used were “bancos de leite” OR “milk banks”. After the search, 20 articles were selected for the final corpus of the research. The factors that interfere with breast milk donation were classified as operational, educational and structural. The study found that health professionals play a key role in the encouragement of human milk donation and should be multipliers of good practices related to breastfeeding. High quality care should be provided to nursing mothers to meet their demands, on an individual basis.

Keywords

• Milk banks
• Breastfeeding
• Maternal-Child Health
• Maternal-Child Nursing