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The Relationship Of Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy To Breastfeeding Duration And Breastfeeding Exclusivity Of Full-Term Infants In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Mixed Method Study, Karen Hylton-Mcguire
The Relationship Of Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy To Breastfeeding Duration And Breastfeeding Exclusivity Of Full-Term Infants In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Mixed Method Study, Karen Hylton-Mcguire
Theses & Dissertations
Background
Research demonstrates better health outcomes for both women and their infants when infants are breast-fed. There is evidence that an increasing number of full-term, normal birth weight infants are being admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and that these infants receive less breast milk than their well full-term and preterm infant counter parts. The effect of short-term admission of full-term infants to the NICU on maternal breastfeeding self-efficacy and breastfeeding exclusivity and duration, and the facilitators of and barriers to breastfeeding success reported by these mothers, has not been well explored.
Purpose
The purpose of this study …