COMPARISON OF BREASTFEEDING SELF-EFFICACY BETWEEN ADOLESCENT AND ADULT MOTHERS AT A MATERNITY HOSPITAL IN RIBEIRÃO PRETO, BRAZIL

• Autor(a) principal: Guimarães,Carolina Maria de Sá
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Conde,Raquel Germano, Brito,Bruna Cremasco de, Gomes-Sponholz,Flávia Azevedo, Oriá,Mônica Oliveira Batista, Monteiro,Juliana Cristina dos Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Texto & contexto enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-07072017000100310
• topic: Breastfeeding; Self-efficacy; Confidence; Nursing; Maternal and child health

ABSTRACT Objective: to measure and compare the breastfeeding self-efficacy between adolescents and adults mothers in the immediate postpartum. Method: is an observational, cross-sectional and comparative study, developed at a maternity hospital in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil. Data were collected between January and July 2014. The sample consisted of 306 adult mothers and 94 adolescent mothers. The breastfeeding self-efficacy scores were obtained using the Brazilian version of the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale. Student t-test was used to compare the values of breastfeeding self-efficacy between the groups of participants. We considered a 5% significance level (p=0.05). Results: most adolescents and adults mothers (54%) presented high levels of breastfeeding self-efficacy and there was no statistically significant difference between the scores of the two groups (p=0.3482) . Conclusion: health professionals need to be careful about breastfeeding self-efficacy in order to direct specific actions for each group of mothers (adolescents and adult mothers) to improve the breastfeeding rates.