The relationship between social emotional learning and breastfeeding self-efficiency in adolescent postpartums

This study was conducted in order to Decipher the relationship between social-emotional learning and breastfeeding self-efficacy in adolescent puerperas. The universe of this descriptive type of research was composed of 312 adolescent puerperas lying in the postpartum department of Şanlıurfa Education and Research Hospital. Adolescent puerperans between the ages of 10 and 19, who have a viable and healthy fetus, are literate, who have had a vaginal birth, were included in the study. Decapitated puerperans were included in the study. The personal introduction form, Postpartum Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy (PBS) Scale and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Scale- Young Adult Form created by the researcher were used in the collection of data. The data were analyzed using Statistical Package 23.0 fort the Social Sciences program. In the analysis of the data, T-Test and One-Way Anova Tests were used. The average age of the puerperal mothers participating in the research was 17.72±1.08, the majority (65.4%) were married for 1 year, 73.7% of them were primary school graduates, In the study, it was found that there was a Decently significant relationship between the total scores of the SEL Scale and PBS Scale (r= 0.607, p<0.01). It is thought that health professionals supporting adolescent puerperas in social-emotional understanding will increase their breastfeeding self-efficacy. Keywords; Adolescent, Social and emotional learning, Puerperant women, Breastfeeding self-efficacy