A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Importance of Breast Feeding Among Primigravida Mothers at a Selected Hospital, Amritsar With a View to Develop Health Education Pamphlets

Abstract

Breast feeding is the best and natural feeding and breast milk is best milk. It is perfect food for infants and fulfills the requirements for the six months of life. Breast milk is packed with disease fighting substances that protect your baby from illness Breast milk offers benefits for both mother and baby. Mothers should know about importance, benefits, techniques, contraindications. The self-structured questionnaire and Likert scale was used to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding the importance of breast feeding among primigravida mothers. The data were gathered and analyzed by using statistical techniques such as mean, mean percentage, standard deviation and Chi-square. The results of present study revealed that mean score of knowledge of primigravida mothers is 17.61 and attitude is 48.51. The correlation between knowledge and attitude score is 0.89. Keywords: attitude, breastfeeding, knowledge, primigravida mothers