Effectiveness of husband and care provider support of exclusive breast feeding in nursing mothers: A systematic literature review

Background: Exclusive breastfeeding provides short-term and long-term benefits for babies and their mothers. This is related to the risk of reducing morbidity and mortality in infants, and improving maternal health. This support was obtained by mothers from two parties, namely family and health workers. Objectives: The purpose of this systematic literature review is to determine the effect and effectiveness of husband and care provider support for exclusive breastfeeding. Methods: The five stages of the Systematic Literature Review method are identifying problems, determining priority problems and research questions, compiling a framework of inclusion and exclusion critical data using PICOC, searching for literature using the PubMed database with a period of 2008-2018, conducting a critical appraisal to determine quality from an article, data extraction analysis and literature mapping. Results: There were 8 articles selected using quantitative research methods with various types of study designs such as quasi-experimental, case control, randomized control trial (RCT), and cross sectional study.&nbsp