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Effectiveness of weekly cell phone counselling calls and daily text messages to improve breastfeeding indicators

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-018-1308-3

Published Online: 2018-10-30

Published Print: 2018-12

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Authors

Patel, Archana

Kuhite, Priyanka

Puranik, Amrita http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0013-7317
Khan, Samreen Sadaf

Borkar, Jitesh

Dhande, Leena
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (09-000076-AT10-4LMR)

SARDM - World Bank (806410)
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Article History

Received: 1 February 2018

Accepted: 10 October 2018

First Online: 30 October 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The trial was approved by two Institutional Review Boards (local IRB: Lata Medical Research Foundation and Sir Gangadharrao Chitnavis Trust and by the National IRB: Indian Council of Medical Research). A signed informed consent was obtained from each woman in the presence of a witness. A copy of the consent was also handed over to the woman for her reference.

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