Research Article

The Effect of Breastfeeding Education Provided to Pregnant Women Who Expect Twins on Their Breastfeeding Intention

Volume: 7 Number: 4 December 10, 2022
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The Effect of Breastfeeding Education Provided to Pregnant Women Who Expect Twins on Their Breastfeeding Intention

Abstract

Objective: The study was conducted to determine the effect of breastfeeding education provided to pregnant women expecting twins on their breastfeeding intention.
Materials and Methods: The research was conducted as a single group pre-test-post-test design study in the antenatal education class of a training and research hospital between August and December 2017. The study sample consisted of 38 pregnant women expecting twins between 20 and 34 weeks of gestation who came to the hospital's pregnant outpatient clinics and agreed to participate in the study. In the study, data were collected using the "Descriptive Information Form,” "Information Form on Breastfeeding of Twin Babies," and "Breastfeeding Intent Scale for Twin Expecting Pregnant Women." The data were evaluated in the SPSS program, using percentages, averages, and paired Student’s t-test.
Results: The mean age of the pregnant women was 29.84 years (SD=5.63). The mean total score obtained by the pregnant women from the scale was 22.84±4.46 before the education and 29.68±3.09 after the education, and the difference between them was statistically highly significant (t= -13.577, p=0.000). The effect size of this significant difference is 2.930, which is high.
Conclusion: It was determined that breastfeeding education provided in the antenatal period affected the breastfeeding intention of pregnant women expecting twins (p<0.05). 

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Supporting Institution

The study was doctorate thesis and supported by the Sakarya University Scientific Research Projects Commission.

Project Number

2016-40-02-002.

Thanks

We also thank the mothers participating in this study.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Health Care Administration

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 10, 2022

Submission Date

April 1, 2022

Acceptance Date

September 21, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Volume: 7 Number: 4

AMA
1.Menekşe D, Çınar N. The Effect of Breastfeeding Education Provided to Pregnant Women Who Expect Twins on Their Breastfeeding Intention. OTJHS. 2022;7(4):593-601. doi:10.26453/otjhs.1097111

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