Women's experience of social media breastfeeding support and its impact on extended breastfeeding success: A social cognitive perspective.
Rachel BlackMarian Mc LaughlinMelanie GilesPublished in: British journal of health psychology (2020)
The symbiotic relationship between members of a social media group facilitates greater breastfeeding success and a longer duration of breastfeeding through the central concept of the SCT: reciprocal determinism. Therefore, it is posited that the SCT is a suitable theory of behaviour change which can potentially be used to develop interventions aiming to increase breastfeeding rates and duration.