Relationship Between the Support from Healthcare Workers and Mother’s Motivation to Exclusively Breastfeed in Medan

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10.2991/978-94-6463-120-3_25How to use a DOI?

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healthcare worker support; motivation; exclusive breastfeeding

Abstract

Breast milk is an important nutrient for newborns, which provides short-term and long-term health benefits for infants and mothers. The support from health workers is very much needed in providing information and education on exclusive breastfeeding to mothers and the family members from pregnancy check-ups until the babies are 6 months old. This effort can increase the mother’s motivation to give exclusive breastfeeding. To assess the relationship between the support of health workers and mother’s motivation to breastfeed in Medan, Indonesia. This research used a descriptive cross-sectional research design with purposive sampling. The research subjects were 266 mothers of babies aged 6–11 months old. The inclusion criteria in this study were breastfeeding mothers with babies aged 6–11 months living in Medan, North Sumatra and were willing to be research respondents. The results showed that among 229 respondents (86.1%) received support from healthcare workers, 222 respondents (83.5%) were poorly motivated to exclusively breastfeed and 173 respondents (65%) did not give exclusive breastfeeding. There was a relationship between the support from healthcare workers and exclusive breastfeeding with p-value = 0.001 < α = 0.05 and there was a relationship between mother’s motivation and exclusive breastfeeding with p-value = 0.005 < α = 0.05. There was a relationship between the support from healthcare workers and mother’s motivation to exclusively breastfeed in Medan.

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AU  - Farida Linda Sari Siregar
AU  - Evawany Yunita Aritonang
AU  - Etti Sudaryati
AU  - Nurmaini Nurmaini
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/03/31
TI  - Relationship Between the Support from Healthcare Workers and Mother’s Motivation to Exclusively Breastfeed in Medan
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Neuroscience, Neurology and Psychiatry (ICONAP 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 162
EP  - 168
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-120-3_25
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-120-3_25
ID  - Siregar2023
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