Self‐efficacy in Infant Care Scale: Development and psychometric testing

Prasopkittikun, Tassanee; Tilokskulchai, Fongcum; Sinsuksai, Nittaya; Sitthimongkol, Yajai

doi:10.1111/j.1442-2018.2004.00266.x

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“…Self-efficacy has been shown to directly affect the quality of care provided to the newborn (4). If a mother is not ready to accept the motherhood role or have doubts about the effectiveness of her parental role, the management is challenged and this feeling of inadequacy combined with the lack of clear understanding of herself and inability to create mechanisms to cope with these challenges may lead to postpartum depression (5).…”

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Association Between Maternal Sense of Competence and Self-Efficacy in Primiparous Women During Postpartum Period

2018

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Background: When women's' lives enter a new phase after childbirth, they need to adapt to it in order to accept their motherhood role. Maternal competency depends on the mother's perception of her maternal role and the ability to attain and fulfill it. The aim of this study was to examine the association between maternal sense of competence and self-efficacy in the postpartum period. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 305 Iranian women were selected randomly via a two-stage cluster sampling method at the end of the 4th postpartum month. Data were collected from August 2016 to January 2017 and by using the socio-demographic characteristics questionnaire, parenting sense of competence scale, and maternal self-efficacy questionnaire. The statistical tests including Pearson correlation, Independent sample t-test, One-way ANOVA, and General linear model were used for data analysis. Results: The mean (SD) score of self-efficacy was 33.8 (5.1) and mean (SD) score of maternal sense of competence was 79.2 (13.8).Between maternal competency and self-efficacy a significantly positive correlation (P = 0.000, r = 0.364) was found. According to the adjusted general linear model, mother's age, income, spouse's occupation, type of pregnancy, and self-efficacy have statistically significant relationships with the maternal sense of competence and explains 34.9% of the variation in the maternal sense of competence score. Conclusions:The findings of the present study showed that increased postpartum self-efficacy is associated with improved maternal competency, which requires health providers to evaluate postpartum maternal self-efficacy and make the necessary interventions if it is low.

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Association Between Maternal Sense of Competence and Self-Efficacy in Primiparous Women During Postpartum Period

2018

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“…A literature review identified validated questionnaires on breastfeeding self-efficacy[18-21] and self-efficacy in infant care[23,24]. These were used to develop questions to assess mother's confidence (self-efficacy)[25] in infant growth monitoring and feeding so that her baby would not gain too much weight.…”

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Development of a questionnaire to assess maternal attitudes towards infant growth and milk feeding practices

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Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act

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BackgroundThere is increasing recognition that public health strategies to prevent childhood obesity need to start early in life. Any behavioural interventions need to target maternal attitudes and infant feeding practices, This paper describes the development and preliminary validation of a questionnaire to assess maternal attitudes towards infant growth and milk feeding practices.MethodsWe designed a 57-item (19 questions), self-administered questionnaire to measure the following four domains- 1) type of milk feeding, decision making and sources of advice; 2) frequency and quantity of milk feeds; 3) attitudes to infant feeding and growth; and 4) theory-based beliefs about following infant feeding recommendations. Forty mothers completed the questionnaire on two occasions six days apart (to assess test-retest reliability) and then participated in a semi-structured, open-ended telephone interview covering the same domains (to assess criterion validity). Percentage agreement, Cohen's Kappas (for categorical variables) and Spearman's correlation coefficients (for continuous variables) were used to quantify reliability and validity. Internal consistency between theory-based constructs (self-efficacy, outcome expectancy and intention) was quantified by Chronbach's alpha.ResultsOf the 57 questionnaire items 51 (89%) had percentage agreement above 70% indicating good test-retest reliability, and the remaining 6 items had moderate or substantial levels of agreement (kappa 0.41-0.68). Comparing questionnaire with interview coding (validity), percentage agreement was above 66% for 39/57 items (68%). Of the 16 items with percentage agreement below 66%, only five had kappa values below 0.20 (two items had insufficient interview responses). Internal consistency was 0.51, 0.79 and 0.90 for self-efficacy, outcome expectancy and intention respectively.ConclusionsThis questionnaire could be a useful tool in understanding the determinants of infant feeding and the 'causal mechanism' of interventions that target infant feeding practices to prevent early obesity.

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“…In broad terms, self‐efficacy takes into account how people think or feel, their level of commitment and their chosen course to achieve goals despite the challenges and difficulties they might face . In medicine, self‐efficacy has been associated with different aspects of general health; for example, adherence to diabetes treatment , decrease in the risk of coronary heart disease and better health‐related quality of life . Similarly, in dentistry, several studies found a positive relationship between self‐efficacy and tooth brushing and between self‐efficacy and dental health .…”

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confidence: 99%