1 Department of Management, Policy & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
2 School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
J Hum Lact. 2018 Feb;34(1):77-83. doi: 10.1177/0890334417724118. Epub 2017 Aug 16.
This article focuses on the costs of opening and running a Baby Café. A Baby Café is an intervention that focuses on providing peer-to-peer support for breastfeeding mothers. Research aim: This study aimed to estimate the costs of establishing and running a Baby Café.
The authors used a microcosting approach to identifying costs using the case of a Baby Café located in San Antonio, Texas, and modeled after other existing cafés in the United States. They also used extensive literature review and conducted an informal interview with a manager of an existing Baby Café in the United States to validate our cost data. The cost analysis was done from the provider perspective.
Costs of starting a Baby Café were $36,000, whereas annual operating costs totaled $47,000. Total discounted costs for a 5-year period amounted to $250,000, resulting in a cost per Baby Café session of $521 and cost per mother of $104. Varying the number of sessions per week and number of mothers attending each session, the discounted cost per Baby Café session ranged between $460 and $740 and the cost per mother varied between $65 and $246.
These findings can be used by policy makers and organizations to evaluate local resource requirements for starting a Baby Café. Further research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of this intervention against other breastfeeding promoting initiatives.
本文重点介绍开办和运营婴儿咖啡馆的成本。婴儿咖啡馆是一种干预措施，专注于为母乳喂养的母亲提供同伴支持。
本研究旨在估算开办和运营婴儿咖啡馆的成本。
作者使用微观成本法来确定成本，案例为位于德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥的一家婴儿咖啡馆，该咖啡馆以美国其他现有的咖啡馆为蓝本。他们还广泛查阅了文献，并对美国一家现有的婴儿咖啡馆经理进行了非正式访谈，以验证我们的成本数据。成本分析从提供者的角度进行。
开办婴儿咖啡馆的初始成本为 36000 美元，而每年的运营成本总计为 47000 美元。5 年期间的总贴现成本达到 250000 美元，每个婴儿咖啡馆课程的成本为 521 美元，每位母亲的成本为 104 美元。每周课程次数和每位母亲参加的课程次数不同，贴现后的每个婴儿咖啡馆课程成本在 460 美元至 740 美元之间，每位母亲的成本在 65 美元至 246 美元之间。
这些发现可以为政策制定者和组织提供开办婴儿咖啡馆所需的当地资源评估。需要进一步研究来评估该干预措施相对于其他促进母乳喂养举措的效果。
