Study Design and Methods
Institutional review board approval was obtained for this study. Mothers were recruited by local support son, via electronic methods, and through local diverse groups with the intent of including women of form and racial backgrounds. The explained study purpose and included an explanation of for information that was to be understand English or participation was to and financial have an authorized interpreter with No was given to mothers for participating. compensation was maintained during the Participant confidentiality using numbers interview and data collection process by using numbers rather than names subiects names remained confidential through a password protected electronic database than use of names to determinc mutually agreeable interview time and location, no identifiable information was linked to qualitative data .
Interview questions were developed by the research team using common subjects in breastfeeding and dental research. The questions sought to specifically identify patterns of breastfeeding and as dental rendered by HGPs. In person, digitally recorded interviews were conducted with 14 cosleeping, mothers with children ranging in age from 6 months to 2 years.
All interviews were comple by one interviewer a setting neutral both the interviewer and participant Each interview consisted of four demographic questions and seven open-ended questions about cosleeping pat terns, nighttime breastfeeding patterns, and dental health advice offered by their HCPs. Intervic s were recorded on a handheld digital recorder and then downloaded im Each mediately a secure password protected database. interview lasted approximately 10 to 15 minutes. Table 1 for interview questions. Methodology for analysis was conventional content analysis(Downe-Wamboldt, 1992; Elo& Kyngas, 2008) Interviews were transcribed verbatim b first author, who then performed first-level coding of the data(Elo& Kyngas). These first-level codes were then compiled into categories and subcategories by the research team and ex Following this amined for similarities or dissimilarities. process, data were then abstracted into generic categories and larger main themes, which were given a contextual name derived from the data(Graneheim& Lundman 2004). Data collection was complete once theme satura tion occurred and no new themes continued to Rigor was maintained throughout via confirmability, dependability, and transferability(Sandelowski, 1986),