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Decision-Making On Breastfeeding among Chinese Women in Taiwan

Tuesday, 13 July 2010: 4:25 PM

Wil-Lie Chen, PhD
Department of Nursing, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
Zxyyann Lu, PhD
Institute of Clinical & Community Health Nursing, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Chao-Huei Chen, MD
Division of Neonatology Department of Pediatrics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Learning Objective 1: the learner will be able to know what the Chinese mothers dealt with breastfeeding practice.

Learning Objective 2: the learner will be able know how the Chinese mothers develop their own coping strategies in breastfeeding practice.

Purpose: Chinese women’s breastfeeding practices are dealing with health professionals’ and laymen’s information in the Western biomedical care system in Taiwan, but few studies have examined this issue in depth. The purpose of this study was to explore Chinese women’s experiences dealing with breastfeeding practice and to explore the implications for providing culturally competent care in Taichung area, Taiwan.

Methods: A qualitative study was used. Semi-structured interviewed with purposively sample of 21 Chinese women at two months post-partum stage were conducted.  The interviews were tape recorded and verbatim transcribed.  All the transcriptions were analyzed in developing coding categories and identify themes.

Results: Two major themes were identified: the value of empirical based knowledge and findings a point of balance. Throughout these two major themes it was evident that Chinese women evaluated all the information that they received from all health professionals’ and laymen’s opinions and developed appropriate strategies to managing their breastfeeding practices.    
Conclusion: The findings of this study was showed that the difficulty for health professionals and family caregivers to provide culturally competence care. When implementing breastfeeding practice, it is important to consider the complexities inherent in the blending of cultural care across divergent worldviews and serve as a foundation for further investigation in this field.   

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