Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.26332/seemedj.v1i1.29
Interventions of Health Visitors in Making a Decision About Breastfeeding
Štefica Mikšić
; Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Zdenka Konjarik
; Specialist Pediatric Outclinic, Đakovo, Croatia
Mirjana Kralj-Vasilj
; Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Brankica Juranić
; Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Dragica Pavlović
; Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
Aim: The aim of this paper was to establish a link between the promotion of breastfeeding and the
interventions of the visiting nurse.
Methods: The study was conducted in 2012 in the city of Đakovo and the surrounding area. The
questionnaire was filled out by mothers after leaving the maternity ward, during the first visit of the
community health nurse within the first seven days after the labor.
Results: From a total of 154 parturient women who filled in a survey after they had left the hospital,
the decision about breastfeeding before the pregnancy was made by 58.4% of examinees. Primiparas
from the city were older than primiparas from the surrounding rural area (p<0.001). Mothers received
the majority of information about the proper placement of the child on the chest after birth from
nurses in the maternity hospital (56.3% of the examinees). The study showed that 57.9% of the
examinees had the support of their husband during lactation. The visiting nurses’ first visit was within
seven days after delivery at the home of 121 (78.6%) examinees, showing good awareness and
collaboration between secondary and primary health care.
Conclusion: This research has confirmed that breastfeeding promotion and nursing interventions
have a major impact on breastfeeding.
Keywords
promotion of breastfeeding; visiting nurse
Hrčak ID:
186758
URI
Publication date:
3.7.2017.
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