Women's Health Nursing (여성건강간호학회지)
- Volume 5 Issue 1
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- Pages.21-35
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- 1999
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- 3022-7666(pISSN)
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- 3022-8247(eISSN)
The Effect of Breast-feeding Education on Method, Attitude, and Duration of Breast-feeding by Primipara
모유수유 교육이 초산모의 모유수유 방법, 태도 및 지속정도에 미치는 효과
- Ahn, Sin-Young ;
- Koh, Hyo-Jung (Keimyung University college of nursing)
- Published : 1999.03.31
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of breast-feeding education on skills, attitude, and duration of breast-feeding among primipara mothers. The educational session was offered during the period of June through September at the T medical center in T city. One hundred thirteen primiparas were selected for this study, 61 who received breast-feeding education(lecture, demonstration, and additional telephone counselling) served as the experimental group and 52 who did not as the control. Data collection was done by self-reporting method. the reliability of the instrument was from .77 to .87. Duration of breast-feeding was classified into I through V according to the WHO classification at the time point of 4 weeks of postpartum. The results were as follows : 1. The score for the experimental group on the skills of breast-feeding techniques was significantly higher than those of the control(t=9.12, p=.000). 2. The score for the experimental group in the attitude toward breast-feeding was significantly higher than those of the control(t=6.12, p=.000). 3. Duration of breast-feeding for the experimental group was significantly longer than that of the control at the time of 4 weeks of postpartum(