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Friday, July 23, 2004
Effects of Breast-Feeding Education and Continual Phone Counseling on the Promotion of Breast-Feeding Compliance in Korea
Mi-Hae Sung, RN, PhD, Nursing Department, College of Medicine, Nursing Department, College of Medicine, Inje University, Busan, South Korea
| Learning Objective #1: Investigate the effects of breast-feeding education and continual follow-up on the promotion of breast-feeding compliance during the four weeks after childbirth |
| Learning Objective #2: Identify selectively those mothers who are unable to breast-feed and provide education individually and continual support by telephone follow-up |
This study was designed to investigate the effects of breast-feeding education and continuous follow-up on the promotion of breast-feeding compliance during the 4 weeks after childbirth. Seventy five mothers who delivered in one general hospital in Busan participated in the study, 39 mothers of whom were assigned to experimental group and 36, to control group. The data collection was done from August 1 to October 31, 2002 and the educational program was applied to the experimental group on the 24 hrs through 72hrs after delivery and the phone counselling was made the 1 week, 2 weeks and 4 weeks after childbirth. This study investigated the breast-feeding rate and the breast-feeding method according to feeding methods(breast-feeding, bottle feeding and mixed feeding at the 4 weeks after childbirth by phone . The data was analyzed by mean, chi-square test, descriptive statistics and logistic regression using SPSS WIN 10.0 program. The results of this study were as the followings ; 1. Breast-feeding rate 39.2% of the experimental group was higher than 22.2% that of the control group in simple analysis(¥ö2 = 5.660, p=.059). 2. Background variables affecting feeding behavior were feeding plan(¥ö2 =10.612, p=0.004). 3. The rates of mothers' compliance during the 4 weeks after childbirth in the experimental group demonstrated a significant difference ; much higher rate of mothers's compliance than control group(Odds ratio 4.0166, p=0.001). Conclusions: These results show that individual education about breast-feeding and continuous postnatal telephone consultation influenced on the practice of breast-feeding. The breast-feeding education increase the rate of mother's compliance and duration of breast-feeding. therefore, it is necessary to find out selectively those mothers who are unable to breast-feeding and provide education individually and continuous support by telephone follow up.
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