Table 2 Characteristics of included articles
Source | URL | Format | Title | Reader comments, n | Article stance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BBC | Article | “Breastfeeding mothers offered £200 in shop vouchers” | 1121 | Mixed | |
BBC | Article | “Breastfeeding vouchers: Midwives and health visitors verify claims” | 0 | Mixed | |
Daily Mail | Article | “Mothers to get a £200 incentive to breastfeed…in Poundstretcher vouchers: critics claim scheme is form of bribery" | 759 | Mixed | |
Daily Mail | Follow-Up Article | “New mothers will not be paid to breastfeed, Nick Clegg says as he insists controversial voucher scheme is not government policy!” | 58 | Mixed | |
Guardian | Article | “Researchers to offer shopping vouchers to mothers who breastfeed” | 330 | Mixed | |
Guardian | Editorial | “The worst breastfeeding initiative I’ve ever come across” | 546 | Negative | |
Guardian | Editorial | “No, we’re not ashamed about giving mothers financial incentives to breastfeed” | 140 | Positive | |
Independent | Article | “The nanny state? Mothers could be given shopping vouchers for breastfeeding their babies” | 0 | Mixed | |
Independent | Editorial | “Vouchers for mothers who breastfeed: isn’t there enough breast-mongering in the world already?” | 9 | Negative | |
Independent | Editorial | “Offering poorer mothers £200 to breastfeed is barmy, middle-class lactivism” | 97 | Negative | |
Sun | Editorial | “Vouchers for breastfeeding are an insult to mums fund health visitors not token gestures” | 3 | Negative | |
Telegraph | Article | “New mothers ‘bribed to breastfeed’ by NHS with £200 shopping vouchers” | 268 | Mixed | |
Telegraph | Editorial | “Mothers might not breastfeed after taking £200 NHS bribe, MP warns” | 42 | Mixed |