Sestrinski glasnik, Vol. 27 No. 1, 2022.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.11608/sgnj.27.1.5
The impact of structured breastfeeding education on changes in students’ intentions, attitudes, and knowledge about breastfeeding
Marija Čatipovć
; Specijalistička pedijatrijska ordinacija Marija Čatipović, Borisa Papandopula 26, Bjelovar, Hrvatska
Zrinka Puharić
; Veleučilište u Bjelovaru, Stručni studij Sestrinstvo, Bjelovar, Hrvatska
Mirna Žulec
; Veleučilište u Bjelovaru, Stručni studij Sestrinstvo, Bjelovar, Hrvatska
Maria Magdalena Bilić
; Dom zdravlja Zagreb-Centar, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Aim: The aim of this research is to determine the effectiveness of the offered educational program on breastfeeding and the correlation of intentions, attitudes, and knowledge of respondents about breastfeeding.
Methods: A validated questionnaire for measuring students’ intentions, attitudes, and knowledge about breastfeeding (BIAKQ, Breastfeeding intentions, attitudes, and knowledge questionnaire) examined students’ intentions, attitudes, and knowledge about breastfeeding before and after the breastfeeding education in second-year nursing students of Bjelovar University. The significance of differences in the results of respondents in intentions, attitudes, and knowledge, shown by the BIAKQ questionnaire before and after the training, was analyzed by the t-test, Wilcoxon test, and Spearman’s correlation coefficient.
Results: We found statistically significant positive changes in attitudes and intentions and the overall results on the BIAKQ questionnaire after the education. There was no significant positive change in the knowledge of breastfeeding. That knowledge was very well before education as well. The correlation of the results on the scales of intentions and attitudes with each other and in relation to the total results achieved on the questionnaire was statistically significant and strong. The results confirm that breastfeeding education had a positive effect on the emotional and motivational component of the attitudes, even though the effect on the cognitive component was not statistically significant.
Conclusion: The conducted breastfeeding education for students confirmed its effectiveness in correcting the attitudes and intentions of respondents about breastfeeding without statistically significant improvement in the respondents’ knowledge. Additional research is needed on samples of students from other regions of Croatia, and in case of confirmation of the effectiveness of the educational program, to make it available online to all lecturers and students for whom breastfeeding education is a subject of interest.
Keywords
nursing students; breastfeeding; education
Hrčak ID:
275265
URI
Publication date:
14.4.2022.
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