Maternal exposure to intimate partner violence and breastfeeding practices in 51 low-income and middle-income countries: A population-based cross-sectional study

Rishi Caleyachetty; Olalekan A. Uthman; Hana Nekatebeb Bekele; Rocio Martín-Cañavate; Debbie Marais; Jennifer Coles; Briony Steele; Ricardo Uauy; Peggy Koniz-Booher

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002921

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Maternal exposure to intimate partner violence and breastfeeding practices in 51 low-income and middle-income countries: A population-based cross-sectional study

Rishi Caleyachetty ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: r.caleyachetty@icloud.com

Affiliation Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9282-7958

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Olalekan A. Uthman,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8567-3081

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Hana Nekatebeb Bekele,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization Inter-Country Support Team, Zimbabwe WHO Country Office, Harare, Zimbabwe
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Rocio Martín-Cañavate,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Centre of Tropical Medicine, Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain
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Debbie Marais,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9073-0706

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Jennifer Coles,

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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Briony Steele,

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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Ricardo Uauy,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-4268

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Peggy Koniz-Booher

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation JSI Research & Training Institute, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America
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Maternal exposure to intimate partner violence and breastfeeding practices in 51 low-income and middle-income countries: A population-based cross-sectional study

Rishi Caleyachetty,
Olalekan A. Uthman,
Hana Nekatebeb Bekele,
Rocio Martín-Cañavate,
Debbie Marais,
Jennifer Coles,
Briony Steele,
Ricardo Uauy,
Peggy Koniz-Booher

Published: October 1, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002921

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