The Impact of a Self-Efficacy Intervention on Short-Term Breast-Feeding Outcomes

Autor/inn/en	Nichols, Jeni; Schutte, Nicola S.; Brown, Rhonda F.; Dennis, Cindy-Lee; Price, Ian
Titel	The Impact of a Self-Efficacy Intervention on Short-Term Breast-Feeding Outcomes
Quelle	In: Health Education & Behavior, 36 (2009) 2, S.250-258 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1090-1981
DOI	10.1177/1090198107303362
Schlagwörter	Control Groups; Intervention; Health Education; Self Efficacy; Pregnancy; Nutrition; Females; Infants; Infant Care; Mothers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Schwangerschaft; Ernährung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Säuglingspflege; Mother; Mutter
Abstract	Maternal self-efficacy for breast-feeding may contribute to success in breast-feeding. This study aimed to increase breast-feeding self-efficacy and actual breast-feeding through an intervention based on Bandura's self-efficacy theory. A total of 90 pregnant women participated in the study. The women who were assigned to a breast-feeding self-efficacy intervention showed significantly greater increases in breast-feeding self-efficacy than did the women in the control group. Furthermore, at 4 weeks postpartum, women in the intervention group showed a trend toward breast-feeding their infants longer and more exclusively than did those in the control group. Greater increases in breast-feeding self-efficacy were associated with a significantly higher level of breast-feeding. Replicating previous research, breast-feeding self-efficacy was significantly related to concurrent breast-feeding behavior, and high antenatal breast-feeding self-efficacy predicted a higher level of later breast-feeding in control-group women. These findings have implications for breast-feeding support programs and for the potential general utility of self-efficacy-based interventions in health education. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10