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| Investigation of the knowledge about diseases and breastfeeding, and the attitude for infant feeding of women with gestational diabetes mellitus |
| Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital，The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 210008 |
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Abstract To investigate the knowledge about diseases and breastfeeding, and the attitude for infant feeding of women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), and to study their influence factors. Methods: 197 women with GDM who had given birth from November 2021 to April 2022 were investigated by convenience sampling. Results：The scores of disease and breastfeeding knowledge of the women with GDM and their infant feeding attitude were 9.35±3.24 points and 58.25±6.35 points. The degree of education, place of residence, education about breastfeeding, maternal early breastfeeding, and breastfeeding self-efficacy of the women, and the neonatal birth weight were the independent factors of breastfeeding knowledge of the women. The primary caregivers situation, medical treatment charge payment during pregnancy, breastfeeding self-efficacy, neonatal birth weight, neonatal treatment in neonatology department were the independent factors of the attitude for breastfeeding of the women. Conclusion: The knowledge about disease and breastfeeding of the women with GDM need to remain to be promoted. The infant feeding attitude of the women with GDM is not positive. The breastfeeding skills of the women are master, but the breastfeeding benefits of the women known are inadequate, so the personalized breastfeeding health education and proper breastfeeding intervention should be given for these women. The breastfeeding self-efficacy of the women with GDM should be help to promote and their breastfeeding knowledge should be strengthen, the infant feeding attitudes should be improved, so as to promote maternal breastfeeding and the maternal and infant long-term health.
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