Nurses specialist in child health and pediatrics and promotion of breastfeeding after the return to work

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Published: Nov 4, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2017.n1.v3.984
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breastfeeding women working pediatric nursing primary health care

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Dulce Mª Pereira García Galvão
Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra
Cátia da Mota Cardoso

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Background: In Portugal, breastfeeding rates are still below those recommended by the World Health Organization, despite the initiatives for its promotion. Most women choose and are favourable to breastfeeding. Working outside the home has become a reality for most women, and reconciling breastfeeding with the professional activity is often difficult. Thus, the return to work is one of the reasons mentioned by mothers for early breastfeeding cessation. The promotion of breastfeeding is a public health priority. Nurses’ attitudes and interventions influence the success of breastfeeding and help overcome some of the difficulties encountered. Objectives: To identify measures developed by primary care nurses specialized in Child Health and Pediatrics to promote breastfeeding and encourage working mothers to continue breastfeeding, as well as identify these nurses’ interventions toward the promotion of breastfeeding in the community, family, workplace, and day-care centers. Participants and Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quantitative methodology using a sample of 13 nurses specialized in Child Health and Pediatrics working in Health Care Centers of a Cluster of Health Centers. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews between June and July 2015. Dara were analyzed using Bardin’s content analysis technique. Results: Aware of the need to promote breastfeeding after the mother’s return to work, nurses implement multiple interventions targeted at mothers, fathers, and grandparents (“breastfeeding corners”, phone support services, home visits, training sessions, celebration of the World Breastfeeding Week) in nursing consultations. Conclusions: Nurses only intervene in nursing consultations. However, there are other places where nurses should intervene, namely day-care centers, the workplace, and the community in general, with the purpose of reducing early breastfeeding cessation due to the mothers’ return to work

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Pereira García Galvão, D. M., & da Mota Cardoso, C. (2017). Nurses specialist in child health and pediatrics and promotion of breastfeeding after the return to work. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 3(1), 153–162. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2017.n1.v3.984
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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2017): MONOGRAPH NO. 2. PSYCHOLOGY TODAY: CHALLENGES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE FUTURE. CHILD PSYCHOLOGY.
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Author Biographies

Dulce Mª Pereira García Galvão, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra

Pós Doutoramento em Enfermagem, Professora Coordenadora; Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra - ESEnfC - Coimbra, Portuga

Cátia da Mota Cardoso

Mestre em Enfermagem de Saúde Infantil e Pediatria, Enfermeira.

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