Attitudes and counselling of healthcare professionals on increasing breast milk: cross-sectional study
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Tarih
2023
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Elsevier Espana Slu
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
Objective: To determine the breast milk-increasing practices healthcare professionals used with their children and their recommendations to mothers. Method: A descriptive cross-sectional study in a Mediterranean region of Turkey. It was carried out with 301 healthcare professionals working in 64 Family Health Centers between January and June 2018. The data were collected by the researchers with a questionnaire including 28 questions. Results: The mean age of healthcare professionals was 36.89 +/- 8.5. All the healthcare profes-sionals encountered mothers with the perception of insufficient breast milk. 73.7% of those with children had breast milk-increasing practices. Increased age negatively affected these practices (OR: 0.923), and increased education positively affected the practices (OR: 3.489). Having received training on breastfeeding and breast milk-increasing measures positively affec-ted the use of practices (OR: 2.118). The use of breast milk-increasing practices by healthcare professionals positively affected their recommendations to mothers (OR: 2.506). Conclusions: Health professionals had their own breast milk boosting practices that they recom-mended to women as well. This result is especially significant in terms of guiding mothers who wish to increase breast milk supply and seek reliable information and contributes to the protection of maternal and newborn health. (c) 2023 Elsevier Espana, S.L.U. All rights reserved.
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Anahtar Kelimeler
Health personnel, Milk, Human, Breast feeding, Galactogogues, Attitude of Health Personnel
Kaynak
Enfermeria Clinica
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N/A
Scopus Q Değeri
Q2
Cilt
33
Sayı
3
