Maternal Breastfeeding Attitudes: Association with Breastfeeding Intent and Socio-demographics Among Urban Primiparas

Persad, Malini D.; Mensinger, Janell L.

doi:10.1007/s10900-007-9068-2

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“…This finding consistent with studies done in United States (Persad & Mensinger, 2008), United Kingdom (Shaker, Scott, & Reid, 2004), Ireland (Sittlington, Stewart-Knox, Wright, Bradbury, & Scott, 2007), Canada (Twells et al, 2014) and Korea (Kang, Choi, Hyun, & Lee, 2015) who found that breastfeeding intention is associated with positive breastfeeding attitudes.…”

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“…Many studies have documented there are various factors associated with breastfeeding intention (Kavanagh, Lou, Nicklas, Habibi, & Murphy, 2012;McLnnes, Love, & Stone, 2001;Mitra et al, 2004;Persad & Mensinger, 2008 Hamid, S. B., et.al./ 5 th AicQoL2017Bangkok, 25-27 February 2017 / E-BPJ, 2(5), March 2017 162 education status, household income, parity, marital status, being breastfed before, mother's knowledge on the benefits of breastfeeding, mother's attitude towards breastfeeding and social support network received by mothers. Interestingly, various studies have suggested that higher body mass index (BMI) was associated with adverse breastfeeding outcomes.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Predictors of Breastfeeding Intention in Malaysia

Hamid¹,

Hc²,

Binns³

2017

E-BPJ

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Breastfeeding is linked to a number of health related benefits among infants. Breastfeeding provides the ideal nutrition for infants, by promoting a higher IQ and protecting against childhood and adult diseases. Despite these health benefits, the rates of exclusive breastfeeding are still low in Malaysia. Intention to breastfeed is closely related to early initiation to breastfeed and could also be a predictor of longer duration of breastfeeding. The objectives of this study are to provide a descriptive analysis of the sociodemographic characteristics, breastfeeding intention and breastfeeding attitudes and determine predictors affecting breastfeeding intention among low-to-middle income women. A prospective cohort study was undertaken of mothers attending eight antenatal clinics run by the Ministry of Health in Selangor, Malaysia. Mothers were recruited during the antenatal period and followed up until six months postpartum to document breastfeeding outcomes. Among 652 mothers in our study, exclusive breastfeeding, mixed feeding, and exclusive formula feeding intentions were 49.6%, 46.3%, and 9.0%, respectively. Age, maternal employment, maternal education, parity, pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), breastfeeding attitude, spouse's preference, grandmother's preference and breastfeeding experience had significant relationship with breastfeeding intention (p< 0.05). However, further analysis showed that breastfeeding intention was associated with positive breastfeeding attitudes, older age, greater years of education, being housewives, having partner and family support for breastfeeding and grandmothers' breastfeeding experience. These findings suggest that by providing breastfeeding initiatives towards less educated, young mothers who lack breastfeeding support from their loved ones may improve breastfeeding rates. IntroductionBreastmilk is the most complete nutrition for infants (Gartner et al., 2005). Breastfeeding provides significant protective effect towards various childhood diseases to the infants in the short term and beyond (Binns, Lee, & Low, 2016;Horta & Victora, 2013). Infants who were not breastfeeding may expose to higher risks of infectious morbidity, as well as associated with increased risks of childhood obesity, leukemia, type I and II diabetes and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDs) (Stuebe, 2009). Breastfeeding intention is a significant predictor of positive breastfeeding outcomes, having an intention to breastfeed linked to early initiation and longer duration of breastfeeding (Donath & Amir, 2003;Mitra, Khoury, Hinton, & Carothers, 2004;Tarrant, Younger, Sheridan-Pereira, White, & Kearney, 2010a). Intention is an immediate precursor of behaviour and is defined as the perception of an individual towards performance of a particular behaviour (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980). In this study breastfeeding intention was defined as the degree of confidence about practising optimal breastfeeding behaviour. Intention to breastfeed is closely related to early initiation to breastfeed and could al...

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Predictors of Breastfeeding Intention in Malaysia

Hamid¹,

Hc²,

Binns³

2017

E-BPJ

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“…[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] In Scotland, Scott et al 17 and Shaker et al 18 administered the IIFAS to a sample of low-income expectant women and their partners and found it to be valid in predicting feeding choice. The IIFAS also was found to have acceptable reliability and validity in its Croatian, Romanian, and Chinese translations.…”

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“…11,12 The exception is the Iowa Infant Feeding Attitude Scale (IIFAS), developed to examine the relationships among mothers' attitudes, intentions, and breastfeeding outcomes, which was tested with men in Scotland. [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] The purpose of this research was (1) to examine infant feeding attitudes among pregnant, low-income women and their male partners and (2) to determine how partner attitudes influence infant feeding intentions. The hypothesis was that mother's and partner's attitudes, as measured by the IIFAS, are correlated and that both are associated with intended method of infant feeding.…”

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Breastfeeding Attitudes: Association Between Maternal and Male Partner Attitudes and Breastfeeding Intent

Mitchell‐Box

Braun

Hurwitz

et al. 2013

Breastfeeding Medicine

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Breastfeeding is considered the best infant feeding method, yet initiation and duration rates in the United States are lower than recommended by medical and public health professionals. Positive attitudes toward breastfeeding of the male partner are important in a mother's success at initiating and maintaining breastfeeding. This study measured the infant feeding attitudes of low-income women and their male partners using the Iowa Infant Feeding Attitude Scale (IIFAS), investigated the reliability and validity of the measure in male partners, and examined the associations of the partner's attitudes with the mother's attitudes and intention to breastfeed. A convenience sample of 112 pregnant women and their male partners completed a survey including sociodemographic items, the IIFAS, and their intended infant feeding method in the hospital and in the first few weeks after the infant's birth (breastfeeding, formula feeding, mixed, and don't know). Mother's and partner's IIFAS scores were highly correlated, and higher scores of both mothers and partners were significantly associated with their intentions to breastfeed. With each increased point on mother's and partner's IIFAS scores, the odds that the mother and her partner intended to breastfeed in the first few weeks increased 12% and 20%, respectively. This is the first U.S. study to validate the IIFAS with male partners. Future research on breastfeeding attitudes and attitude-changing interventions is needed to see if improving partners' attitudes toward breastfeeding will also improve mothers' attitudes and if that increases initiation and duration of breastfeeding.

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“…So, effect of Health Center Standard Counseling towards a it needs to involve the pregnant mothers to attend healthy pregnancy and safe childbirth. Antenatal Class to influence the behavior of the pregnant mothers (Persad and Mensinger, 2008). It shows the people about the importance of healthy pregnancy and safe childbirth information.…”

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An Intervention Study on Antenatal Class Plus for the Improvement of Healthy Pregnancy and Safe Childbirth in Gowa Regency, Indonesia

Thaha¹,

Maria²,

Usman³

2015

Pakistan J. of Nutrition

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Abstract:Complication of pregnancy and childbirth becomes the main cause of maternal mortality in the developing countries. The aim of the research was to analyze the influence of Antenatal Class Plus on the improvement of healthy pregnancy and safe childbirth in Gowa Regency by 2015. This research used quasi experiment with randomized pre-test post-test control group design. The sample consisted of 7 0 respondents. They are Somba Opu Health Center, Pallangga Health Center and Bajeng Health Center. The sample was selected by using purposive sampling method. The data were obtained by using questionnaires and were analyzed by using paired t-test and independent sample t-test. The results of the research indicate that there is an influence of Antenatal Class Plus on the healthy pregnancy (77.1%) and safe childbirth (97.1%). There is a difference of knowledge (p = 0.000), attitude (p = 0.000) and practice (p = 0.000) before and after the intervention of Antenatal Class Plus. Additionally, there is a difference of knowledge (p = 0.000), attitude (p = 0.000) and practice (p = 0.000) between the intervention group and the control group. This means that Antenatal Class Plus is more effective to increase the pregnant mothers' behavior to the improvement of healthy pregnancy and save childbirth in Gowa 2015.

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Maternal Breastfeeding Attitudes: Association with Breastfeeding Intent and Socio-demographics Among Urban Primiparas

Cited by 119 publications

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Predictors of Breastfeeding Intention in Malaysia

Predictors of Breastfeeding Intention in Malaysia

Breastfeeding Attitudes: Association Between Maternal and Male Partner Attitudes and Breastfeeding Intent

An Intervention Study on Antenatal Class Plus for the Improvement of Healthy Pregnancy and Safe Childbirth in Gowa Regency, Indonesia

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