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Article History

Received: 28 December 2023

Accepted: 2 October 2024

First Online: 8 October 2024

Declarations

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: The study is conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki [] and gained approval from the Research Ethics Committee at University of Copenhagen (Cno. 504–0276/21–5000). The study protocol is registered at Clinical Trials: NCT05311631 . First posted April 5, 2022.Selection of mothers to the intensified intervention was based solely on two criteria: young age and/or low educational attainment. The decision was not based on a needs assessment of the individual mother and her chances of obtaining a successful breastfeeding trajectory by the health visitor. This may imply that mothers of young age and/or with low educational attainment may have felt wrongfully stigmatised and placed in the ‘high-risk’ category, despite our data disconfirming this. Conversely, the selection criteria may have caused mothers to be overlooked, who might have benefitted from the intensified intervention.Managers of the participating health visiting programmes signed a collaboration agreement, including consent to participate in data collection. Participation in the health visitor survey was voluntary, and health visitors gave their informed consent by participating. Informed content was collected verbally and in writing among all families and health visitors participating in interviews and focus group discussions, respectively.

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: The authors declare no competing interests.