Highlights
- •This study provides a guide for explaining the relationship between maternal attachment and breastfeeding self-efficacy.
- •It was determined that there was a weak positive relationship between breastfeeding self-efficacy and maternal attachment.
- •Health personnel should intervene on alterable factors that adversely affect breastfeeding self-efficacy and attachment status.
Abstract
Purpose
This research aimed to investigate the factors affecting the perception of mothers
about breastfeeding self-efficacy and their maternal attachment between the fourth
and eighth postnatal weeks and their relation.
Design and methods
This research, which is descriptive, was conducted on 351 postpartum women between
December 2017–2018. The study used the Mother Descriptive Information Form, Maternal
Attachment Inventory (MAI), and the Short Form of the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy
Scale (BSES-SF).
Results
It was found that, mothers' mean scores on the BSES-SF and MAI were affected by their
educational level, the status of regular health checkups during the last pregnancy,
the number of visits for health checkups during the last pregnancy, the place where
they held their babies, the status of breastfeeding previous babies, prenatal breastfeeding
training, the status of finding their own breast milk sufficient, the time when they
first breastfed the baby, the first food the baby received, the status of being willing
to breastfeed, the status of having fatigue due to breastfeeding, the planned duration
of breastfeeding, the status of using additional infant formula, and the status of
having a close relative or friend also breastfeeding. It was also determined that
there was a low positive relationship between breastfeeding self-efficacy and maternal
attachment.
Conclusions
The level of breastfeeding self-efficacy and maternal attachment status of mothers
should be determined in the postpartum period, and health personnel should intervene
on alterable factors that adversely affect breastfeeding self-efficacy and attachment
status, especially in mothers at risk.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: May 21, 2020
Accepted:
April 26,
2020
Received in revised form:
April 26,
2020
Received:
January 7,
2020
Footnotes
☆The research was conducted with the approval of the scientific ethics committee at the Faculty of Nursing (Ethics committee approval number; 2017-01).
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