Correlation between Infantile Colic and Maternal Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy, Breastfeeding Success and Breast Milk
Songül Aktaş1, Dilek Küçük Alemdar2
1Assistant Professor, Nursing Department Trabzon, Faculty of Health Sciences, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey.
Aim:
The study was conducted to determine the correlation between infantile colic and maternal breastfeeding self-efficacy, breastfeeding success and breast milk amount.
Materials And Methods:
This descriptive study included 154 mothers, with infants of age between 3 weeks and 6 months who were diagnosed with infantile colic and who were admitted to the paediatric outpatient clinics of a hospital located in northern Turkey.
Result:
A negative correlation was found between 'parent-infant interaction + problem infant' and 'immature gastrointestinal system' subscales of the Infantile Colic Scale (ICS) and the total mean scores of mothers on the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale. In addition, correlation analysis showed a statistically significant negative correlation between mean scores of mothers in breastfeeding success and subscale and total mean scores of ICS.
Conclusion:
The breastfeeding self-efficacy and breastfeeding success is low in mothers of infants with infantile colic.
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