USPSTF 2025: behavioral counseling interventions to support breastfeeding
The 2025 statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force on primary care counselling to support breastfeeding. It recommends providing interventions or referrals during pregnancy and after birth.
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Overview
Technical summary
JAMA recommendation statement, 2025, B recommendation, titled Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Support Breastfeeding. Only the PubMed abstract was read. Whether it replaces the 2016 USPSTF statement (PMID 27784102) is not stated in the abstract, so no supersession link is written. The recommendation decision names the shared USPSTF record in core as issuer. The recommendation text is carried in the claim on the breastfeeding support page. The guideline's source is the USPSTF final recommendation statement page, which gives the statement date that the recommendation decisions use; the JAMA statement stays cited in the claims.
About this guideline
- Issued by
- Edition
- USPSTF final recommendation statement, as shown on its page; also published as: Recommendation statement, JAMA 2025
- Published
- 2025-04-11
- Status
- Not checked for a newer edition
- Scope
- Primary care behavioral counselling interventions to support breastfeeding, for adolescents and adults who are pregnant or postpartum and their infants and children.
Source
- Document
- Breastfeeding: Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions (USPSTF final recommendation statement page)
- Publisher
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
- Edition note
- Final recommendation statement page as fetched on 2026-10-14 (mx-uspstf-breastfeeding-primary-care-interventions.html). The date under the title is April 11, 2025.
Recommendations
- Recommended: Breastfeeding support and counselling
Record details
- Record id
maternal:guideline-uspstf-2025-breastfeeding- Content hash
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