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A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Policy among Staff Nurses in Selected Hospitals at Amritsar

Bimla Rani, Rajesh P, Arvanbir Kaur

Abstract


The first stage in the start of life is breastfeeding. The first opportunity for promoting it should occur in the health services, the antenatal clinics and the delivery room; just after the birth, the health workers being responsible for this act, as they should ensure practices and training that promote, protect and support breastfeeding. The present study objective was “to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding baby friendly hospital initiative policy among staff nurses in selected hospitals at Amritsar”. The descriptive design was used for study. The sample of 100 staff nurses was selected by purposive sampling technique. The self-structured knowledge questionnaire and modified Likerts-5 point’s attitude scale was used to collect the data from the samples. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used in data analysis. The study results showed that out of 100 samples the majority (90%) of the staff nurses had good knowledge regarding BFHI policy followed by 4 and 6%, who had poor and average knowledge regarding BFHI policy, respectively. The majority (94%) of the staff nurses had favourable attitude regarding BFHI policy followed by 3 and 3% who had unfavourable attitude and moderately favourable attitude regarding BFHI policy, respectively. There is highly significant correlation (1.00) observed between the knowledge and attitude regarding baby friendly hospital initiative policy.

Keywords: Knowledge, attitude, BFHI policy, staff nurses

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijin.v1i1-2.67

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