Which mothers' breastfeeding behaviours within six weeks postpartum do health workers need to notice? Developing an
Jing-Ling Wu1, Shu-Qin Pang1, Xiu-Min Jiang2
1School of Nursing, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.
Objective:
The six weeks postpartum is the high-incidence period of stopping breastfeeding. The clarity of the internal mechanism of behaviour was an effective way to promote breastfeeding. The aim was to reach a consensus on indicators what should be used and prioritised in evaluating mothers' breastfeeding behaviour within six weeks postpartum in order to provide a theoretical reference for health workers to take targeted strategies toward promoting breastfeeding practices.
Design:
Two rounds of Delphi method and analytic hierarchy process was conducted in this study. The two-rounds Delphi was performed to select essential indicators and collect revised suggestion. The analytic hierarchy process was adopted for pairwise comparison to rank the significance of primary and secondary indicators.
Setting And Participants:
The panel included twenty experts with rich breastfeeding information and different general characteristics from China.
Findings:
Consensus was achieved to include three primary indicators, seven secondary indicators, and forty-five tertiary indicators in the final indicators system of the mothers' breastfeeding behaviour within six weeks postpartum. The weight sequence of primary indicators was self-regulation behaviour (0.401), at-the-breast feeding behaviour (0.383), and resource utilisation behaviour (0.216). The rank of the secondary indicators was breastfeeding operation skills (0.267), self-decision behaviour (0.144), self-control behaviour (0.130), self-coping behaviour (0.127), breastfeeding self-perception (0.116), resource acquisition behaviour (0.115), and resource coordination behaviour (0.101).
Key Conclusion:
The study builds a new and reliable indicators system that intuitively reflects the constituent elements of the mothers' breastfeeding behaviour within six weeks postpartum and provides priorities in primary indicators and secondary indicators.
Implications For Practices:
The study helps form a clear and scientific cognition on mothers' breastfeeding behaviour within six weeks postpartum and provides a new perspective and intuitive theoretical reference for health workers to take targeted measures to promote breastfeeding practices and achieve substantial public health gains.
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