Breast-feeding attitudes and practices among Vietnamese mothers in Ho Chi Minh City
Pranee C Lundberg1, Trieu Thi Ngoc Thu
1Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Pranee.Lundberg@pubcare.uu.se
Objective:
to describe breast-feeding attitudes and practices among Vietnamese women in Ho Chi Minh City.
Design:
a descriptive qualitative study was used. The theory of planned behaviour provided the conceptual framework.
Setting:
the Well-baby Clinic, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of a university hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Participants:
23 voluntary Vietnamese mothers.
Data Collection And Analysis:
semi-structured in-depth interview with five open-ended questions and observation was used. The interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed verbatim. The data from the interviews and observations were analysed by use of content analysis.
Findings:
five categories of breast-feeding attitudes and practices were identified: breast-feeding best but not exclusive, cultural and traditional beliefs, infant feeding as a learning process, factors influencing decision to breast feed, and intention to feed the child.
Key Conclusion And Implications For Practice:
cultural and traditional beliefs and practices, and socio-economic situation, influenced the Vietnamese mothers' breast feeding. Health-care professionals should consider cultural context and socio-economic issues when preparing infant feeding education and intervention programmes. Appropriate knowledge about cultural values should be included in health-care education in order to provide culturally congruent care to Vietnamese mothers in Vietnam as well as in Western countries.
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