Högskolan i Skövde

his.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • apa-cv
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Confidence in Breastfeeding Among Pregnant Women
University of Eastern Finland.
University of Eastern Finland.
University of Skövde, School of Life Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2261-0112
University of Oulu, Finland.
2012 (English)In: Western Journal of Nursing Research, ISSN 0193-9459, E-ISSN 1552-8456, Vol. 34, no 7, p. 933-951Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Little is known about prenatal breastfeeding confidence, although such knowledge is necessary for developing the content of counseling and tailoring it for individuals. The purpose of this study was to describe women’s prenatal breastfeeding confidence and how their sociodemographic characteristics, breastfeeding knowledge, and attitudes relate to it. The electronic confidence scale was used in data collection, and 123 Finnish women filled in the questionnaire. The mean confidence score was 83.88 when the maximum possible score was 120. Confidence scores varied when parity, breastfeeding knowledge, and attitudes were involved. Variables regarding breastfeeding as difficult, regarding breastfeeding as exhausting, and parity explained 38.1% of the variation of the breastfeeding confidence scores. Pregnant women need information about managing potential breastfeeding problems and the physiology of breastfeeding. Interventions designed to promote breastfeeding confidence need to be focused on primiparas and women with a lack of breastfeeding knowledge.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2012. Vol. 34, no 7, p. 933-951
Keywords [en]
breastfeeding, pregnancy, mothers, confidence
National Category
Nursing Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine
Research subject
Medical sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-5147DOI: 10.1177/0193945910396518ISI: 000309359200006Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84867067407OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-5147DiVA, id: diva2:427508
Available from: 2011-06-28 Created: 2011-06-28 Last updated: 2021-07-26Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Ekström, Anette

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Ekström, Anette
By organisation
School of Life Sciences
In the same journal
Western Journal of Nursing Research
NursingObstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 873 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • apa-cv
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf