Relation between prenatal education for breastfeeding and breastfeeding technique

• Autor(a) principal: Baldin,Paulo Eduardo Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Pedrosa,Fernanda Gonzalez, Domingues,Gabrielle Rodrigues, Reis,Catherine Muraid Nardi dos, Gonçalves,Talita Heleni, Luiz,Maria Flavia Christino
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-38292022000300651
• topic: Prenatal education; Breastfeeding; Joint accommodation; Regression analysis

Abstract Objectives: compare the evaluation of breastfeeding technique between binomials who did or did not receive prenatal education orientation. Methods: original study based on the application of breastfeeding evaluation form on binomials in joint accommodation (JA) composing of twenty (20) Yes/No questions and the collection of bi categorized independent variables between August/2017-October/2018. Prenatal educational activities with nominal listing of those present and thus creation of the variable was: Prenatal Class Yes/No. Multivariate analysis by Logistic regression were performed with confdence interval at 95%. Results: 180 binomials were included, of which 13 (7%) were exposed to prenatal activities and 167 (93%) were not exposed. In the exposed group, there was a predominance of married and multiparous women (p<0.05), in addition to lower educational level and higher rate of maternal pathologies and low birth weight (p<0.05). Regarding the breastfeeding evaluation, of the 20 questions observed, the exposed group was superior in 12 of them. Among the 4 questions about the Newborn’s grip, the exposed group was superior in 3 (baby’s mouth wide open, lip lowered and chin touching the breast), and the unexposed group was superior in the areola visualization above the upper lip with p<0.05. The limitation found in the study was attributed to quantitative and qualitative heterogeneity between groups. Conclusions: prenatal education for breastfeeding did not alternate significantly the performance of binomials on the breastfeeding technique in this study.