Development of the breastfeeding support scale to measure breastfeeding support from lay and professional persons, and its predictive validity in Japan.
Breastfeeding
Japan
Predictive Validity
Psychometric testing
Scale development
Support
Journal
PeerJ
ISSN: 2167-8359
Titre abrégé: PeerJ
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101603425
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
16
12
2020
accepted:
24
06
2021
entrez:
16
8
2021
pubmed:
17
8
2021
medline:
17
8
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
International and national organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life, but many women stop earlier. Lay and professional persons can support mothers' efforts to overcome breastfeeding difficulties. Considering breastfeeding support to comprise emotional support, practical help, and information offered to women who desire to breastfeed (by professionals, family members, and others), we developed and tested a scale to measure it in Japan. A total of 31 items were generated by literature review and from the authors' clinical experiences. Those items were tested with 243 mothers who visited public health centers in Tokyo for their infant's health check-up 3 months after birth. Breastfeeding support and infant feeding status were then assessed 5 months after birth. All the data were collected by using self-administered questionnaires. On the basis of the results of factor analysis, the number of items was reduced to 11. There were three factors: support from breastfeeding peers and from people in specifically named healthcare professions, practical help, and support from people the mother can rely on to help meet emotional needs and address breastfeeding concerns. Internal-consistency reliability (alpha) of scores on the 11-item scale was 0.83 when measured 3 months postpartum and 0.85 when measured 5 months postpartum. Higher scores on the 11-item scale 3 months postpartum were associated with more breastfeeding exclusivity both at that time (Kruskal-Wallis test, chi-squared = 14.871, df = 3,
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
International and national organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life, but many women stop earlier. Lay and professional persons can support mothers' efforts to overcome breastfeeding difficulties. Considering breastfeeding support to comprise emotional support, practical help, and information offered to women who desire to breastfeed (by professionals, family members, and others), we developed and tested a scale to measure it in Japan.
METHODS
METHODS
A total of 31 items were generated by literature review and from the authors' clinical experiences. Those items were tested with 243 mothers who visited public health centers in Tokyo for their infant's health check-up 3 months after birth. Breastfeeding support and infant feeding status were then assessed 5 months after birth. All the data were collected by using self-administered questionnaires.
RESULTS
RESULTS
On the basis of the results of factor analysis, the number of items was reduced to 11. There were three factors: support from breastfeeding peers and from people in specifically named healthcare professions, practical help, and support from people the mother can rely on to help meet emotional needs and address breastfeeding concerns. Internal-consistency reliability (alpha) of scores on the 11-item scale was 0.83 when measured 3 months postpartum and 0.85 when measured 5 months postpartum. Higher scores on the 11-item scale 3 months postpartum were associated with more breastfeeding exclusivity both at that time (Kruskal-Wallis test, chi-squared = 14.871, df = 3,
Identifiants
pubmed: 34395071
doi: 10.7717/peerj.11779
pii: 11779
pmc: PMC8325426
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e11779Informations de copyright
© 2021 Nanishi et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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