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2023年11月6日 · Background The exclusive breastfeeding rate in China remains significantly low. Numerous studies have identified the impact of maternal characteristics on exclusive breastfeeding; however, the correlation between primary family caregivers’ characteristics, such as health and nutrition knowledge, and exclusive breastfeeding still lacks clarity. The aim of this study is to investigate the ...
Aims and scope. International Breastfeeding Journal encompasses all aspects of breastfeeding. The journal addresses the need for a high quality multi-disciplinary journal in the field. Breastfeeding is recognized as an important public health issue with enormous social and economic implications. Infants who do not receive breast milk are likely ...
2024年1月4日 · Background There are several versions of the Breastfeeding Motivation Scale (BMS), which have been shown to measure maternal breastfeeding motivation, but there is not a Chinese version yet. The study aimed to translate the BMS into Chinese and subsequently assess its psychometric properties among Chinese mothers during the postpartum period. Methods The study was composed of two phases. The ...
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- Bsc-Program
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- Pilot Survey
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- Operational Definition of Terminology
A quasi-experimental longitudinal design using pre-test-intervention-post-test with a non-synchronized non-equivalent control group was employed. The BSC-Program was the intervention. We conducted: 1) a baseline survey for all participants; 2) an intervention group receiving the BSC-Program plus standard education; the control group received only s...
We recruited at two obstetric hospitals (A and B) in the Hokuriku area of Japan for women giving birth from October 2007 to March 2008. The two hospitals had approximately 300 to 500 births per year. Hospital A was a Baby-Friendly Hospital certified by UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Six midwives worked at this hospital; three were Intern...
During the study period, there were 324 births in the two hospitals. Inclusion criteria were: planning on breastfeeding; healthy during the pregnancy and postpartum period; delivered a healthy term singleton infant and the baby's birth weight was over 2500 g and after discharge, received enough appropriate nutrition and got help from their family w...
The participant pool varied based on the number of month deliveries in each hospital. Participation at baseline and follow-up was 100% (n = 117). However two participants who did not complete the questionnaire due to personal circumstances and were excluded from analysis, resulting in 53 participants in the intervention group and 62 participants in...
The BSC-Program included a pamphlet and a DVD. The program focus was: advantages and basics of breastfeeding; baby's feeding cues; positioning; latch-on, and positive signs of baby's feeding (Figure 2). Mothers experienced with breastfeeding provided comments about the clarity and content of the BSC-Program. The contents of the single page, double-...
Measures included three questionnaires. To evaluate mothers' breastfeeding confidence, the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale Short Form (BSES-SF) developed and psychometrically established by Dennis was used. The BSES-SF includes psychological aspects of breastfeeding. It is a 14 item, five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (not at all confident) ...
Three mothers participated in a pilot survey of the BSC-Program to confirm their understanding of the pamphlet, audiovisual materials and the questionnaire contents. This included checking that there were no impediments to the survey, such as difficulty using the audiovisual materials at home, ensuring that the image was clear and that the sound wa...
Participants were surveyed twice, once during early postpartum in hospital (baseline survey) and again at the health check-up one month after birth (follow-up survey). The baseline survey was administered and collected on day four after birth in the hospital. Midwives left survey questionnaires at the hospitals; hospital-based collaborators collect...
Statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS 16.0 for Windows. Descriptive analysis (proportions) was used to characterize the overall samples. For the characteristics of participants, average ± standard deviation and frequencies (percentage) were used. For measuring breastfeeding self-efficacy, means ± standard errors were used and for distributi...
In this study, "fully breastfeeding rate" is defined as no formula was given; many infants were given glucose water after birth.
- Masayo Awano, Keiko Shimada
- 2010
2021年2月24日 · Background There are little up-to-date data available on the duration of exclusive breastfeeding in Lithuania. The aim of our study was to examine the factors that could influence exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months of life. Methods In 2016, a survey was conducted at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic of Vilnius University Hospital, Santaros Klinikos. Women in postnatal wards ...
2020年8月14日 · Background Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is recommended for the first six months of age by the World Health Organization. Mothers’ good knowledge and positive attitude play key roles in the process of exclusive breastfeeding practices. In this study, we report on a systematic review of the literature that aimed to examine the status of mothers’ knowledge, attitude, and practices related to ...
2018年3月6日 · Background Exclusive breastfeeding is important for child health and growth, but its practice is low in many developing countries. This study aimed at determining the breastfeeding practices and examining the sociodemographic characteristics that influence exclusive breastfeeding among mothers attending child welfare clinic at Manhean, in the Tema East Sub-Meteropolitan area of Greater Accra ...
