Investigation of Midwifery Students' Knowledge, Opinions and Religious Attitudes about Breast Milk Banking
Abstract
Aim: This
study was conducted to investigate the relationship between midwifery students'
knowledge, attitudes and religious orientations about breast milk bank.
Materials and Methods: The population of the cross-sectional and descriptive study consisted
of midwifery students of a university, Faculty of Health Sciences (n=283). It
was planned to reach the whole of the sample that was not selected and 230
students who were present at the school and accepted to participate in the
study were included in the study.
Results: When
the information questions were evaluated; 37.0% know what a breast milk bank
is, 43.0% whether there is a need for a mother milk bank in our country, 41.3%
whether using milk from a mother's milk bank will be a religious problem, 48.3%
will cause donor milk to cause infection in newborns, 59.6% stated that they
had no idea about the reliability of the milk taken from the milk bank. When
the attitudes of the students were evaluated; It was determined that 46.1% were
not sure about donating their own milk to the breast milk bank, 38.2% would
apply to the breast milk bank when the baby needed it, 42.2% said that donating
milk was ethical and 56.1% would recommend this institution to the insufficient
mothers. The mother's milk 35.2'n% of the students they believe to be the
demand for bank institutions, they think that there should be 43.9'n% of these
organizations in each city, has been seen if the 49.6'n% they said they would
support mother's milk bank to be established in Turkey. It was found that 72.6%
of the students thought that the milk taken from the breast milk bank would not
replace the baby's own mother's milk, and 58.3% thought that the donors and the
donors should know each other's identities. In the correlation analysis
conducted to determine the knowledge and attitudes of the students about the
average score obtained from the Religious Orientation Scale (ROS) and the
breast milk bank; It was determined that the use of milk from the milk bank
would create religious problems as the mean score of the ROS increased, and the
application of breast milk to the mother's milk bank would increase if the ROS
mean score increased.
Conclusion: In this study, it was found that most of the students had poor knowledge
about the breast milk bank and had negative attitudes.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Health Care Administration
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
January 30, 2021
Submission Date
November 12, 2019
Acceptance Date
December 3, 2020
Published in Issue
Year 2021 Volume: 11 Number: 1
Cited By
Hemşirelik ve Ebelik Bölümü Öğrencilerinin Anne Sütü Bankacılığı Hakkındaki Görüşleri
Sağlık Profesyonelleri Araştırma Dergisi
https://doi.org/10.57224/jhpr.1200230