Methods: Maternity Care Practices
Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) Survey
The 2024 mPINC survey will close on June 10th, 2024.
All hospitals that have been screened by Battelle and deemed eligible have been sent an email with a link to complete the survey. Hospitals must complete their survey to receive a Hospital Report and be included in state, regional, and national level data. If a hospital has not yet received a link to complete the survey or has other questions, please email mPINC@cdc.gov.
La encuesta sobre las mPINC del 2024 finalizará el 10 de junio, 2024.
Todos los hospitales que han sido examinados por Battelle y considerados elegibles, han recibido un mensaje por correo electrónico con un enlace para completar la encuesta. Cada hospital debe completar su encuesta para recibir un informe sobre su establecimiento y ser incluido en los datos a nivel estatal, regional, y nacional. Si un hospital aún no ha recibido un enlace para completar la encuesta o la persona encargada tiene preguntas, por favor enviar un correo electrónico a mPINC@cdc.gov.
Methods
In 2007, CDC administered the first Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey to every facility in the United States and territories that routinely provided maternity care services.
The initial survey established measures of practices and policies related to breastfeeding that are implemented at hospitals providing maternity care. CDC administered the survey every other year from 2007 to 2015 to monitor and examine changes in practices over time. After the 2015 administration, CDC redesigned the survey to reflect changes in maternity care practices that had occurred over the past decade. The redesigned survey launched in 2018.
CDC’s contractor Battelle will begin survey administration by calling each hospital that participated in our previous mPINC survey using the phone number of the person who submitted the survey. If you would like to update the mPINC survey point of contact at your hospital, please email your name, phone number, and hospital name and address to mPINC@cdc.gov. Battelle will screen all other hospitals by calling the hospital’s switchboard and asking to be transferred to the mother-baby nurse manager or the manager of the labor and delivery unit. Battelle will determine if the hospital is eligible to participate, and if so, identify the best person to complete a survey that includes questions about infant nutrition, such as breastfeeding, using formula to feed healthy newborns, and feeding routines. Because of how we administer our survey, the person identified to receive the survey one year is not necessarily the person identified to receive the survey in a later cycle.
It is extremely important for the validity of the survey that we follow the same protocol to identify survey recipients at each hospital as described above.
See what was asked on the 2024 mPINC survey. For more information about the mPINC survey, visit our mPINC FAQs webpage. If you have additional questions, email them to mPINC@cdc.gov.