Breastfeeding Behaviors among Working Mothers in Turkey: A Comparison between Nurses and Non-Nurse Mothers with >1 Month to 2 Years Old Children.

Autor: Ozcan, Handan, Kocak, Derya Yuksel
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Zdroj: International Journal of Caring Sciences; Sep-Dec2019, Vol. 12 Issue 3, p1448-1456, 9p, 3 Charts
Abstrakt: Purpose: This study was planned to evaluate the breastfeeding behaviors of the mothers working in nursing and other sectors who gave birth within 2 years and started to work and to determine the effect of working conditions on breastfeeding. Methods: The population of this cross-sectional and descriptive design study consisted of 70 mothers. 35 of them were nurse mothers with children aged between 0-24 months who started working at the postpartum period and the other 35 were mothers who were not nurses. The data were collected by the researchers. Personal Information Form and Breastfeeding Behavior Form were used for data collection. Results: It was determined that 44.29% of the women were between the ages of 28-35. 75.7% of the women were married between the ages of 17-20. The average age at first marriage was 20 and the first gestational age was 22. Most of the nurses were primigravida (62.9%) and primipara (68.6%). In the study, no statistically significant difference was found between the two groups in terms of gravida, parity and number of living children, the first time of breastfeeding at the end of postpartum period, the rate of giving breastfeeding as the first nutrition to the infant, and the problems they experienced in their last pregnancies. Conclusion: It was determined that, after the start of work, In the group of nurse mothers breastfeeding pattern changed, their babies did not want to suck and they started feeding their babies with food and additional food and they stopped breastfeeding because of fatigue and work stress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index