Correction to: Examining psychosocial pathways to explain the link between breastfeeding practices and child behaviour in a longitudinal cohort

Correction to: BMC Public Health 24, 675 (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-17994-0

In the original publication of this article were 3 value errors in the results, discussion and Table 3 respectively. The incorrect and correct information is listed in this correction article, the full Table 3 can be accessed via the original article. These corrections do not change the main conclusions of the paper and do not result in any changes to the interpretation of the study results.

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Results section

Even stronger mediation was observed for postpartum depression at 1 year, which explained 79.7% and 25.7% of the relationship between breastfeeding at 12 months and internalizing behavior and total behavior scores, respectively (Table 3; Fig. 3A).

Discussion section

The direct and indirect pathways have small effect sizes (between 0.01 and 0.23 of a standard deviation in behavior scores) but can still be interpreted as clinically meaningful when extrapolated to the population level because infant feeding is a universal exposure.

Table 1 Table 3

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Results section

Even stronger mediation was observed for postpartum depression at 1 year, which explained 15.3% and 25.7% of the relationship between breastfeeding at 12 months and internalizing behavior and total behavior scores, respectively (Table 3; Fig. 3A).

Discussion section

The direct and indirect pathways have small effect sizes (between 0.01 and 0.11 of a standard deviation in behavior scores) but can still be interpreted as clinically meaningful when extrapolated to the population level because infant feeding is a universal exposure.

Table 2 Table 3