The investigation of breastfeed association and the factors effecting breeding duration

Aim: The aim of the research is the invastigation of breasfeed association an the factors effecting breading duration. Method: The research which is planned as descriptive and coss-sectional was performed with 133 mother in the healty child monitoring polyclinic of a training and research , between February and March,2019. Socio demographic characteristics questionnaire and breastfeeding self- efficacy scale (short-form) were used in data collection. It is applied by using face to fce interwiev technique with mother after getting permissin of her. In the analysis of the data obtained from the study, independent samples t test, Anova one-way analysis of variance and Chi-square test were used. Finding: It was found that 52.62% of the mothers who participated in the study were between 26-34 years of age, 72.9% of mothers breastfed their babies between 1-6 months and the mean age of the babies was 11.5 ± 7.75 months. The average of EÖYÖ score of mothers was stated as 61.38±7.83. There was a statistical difference between the mean of EÖYÖ point of mothers the birth week of baby and his/her weight (p<0.05). There was a statistical difference between the status of her feeding type (with only breast milk or not) the months left breast-feeding (p<0.05). There was no difference between the demographic characteristics of the mother and father, support status to the mother in infant care, the mode of delivery, the sex of the baby, the status of the mother to receive breastfeeding education and the source of breastfeeding education (p>0.05). There was a statistically significant difference between the mean of EÖYÖ point of mothers and the birth week and weight of the baby and the occupational groups of the fathers (p<0.05). There was no difference between breastfeeding period and number of pregnancies and number of living children (p>0.05). There was a statistically significant difference between mothers' occupations and educational status (p<0.05). Result: It was found that breast-feeding self-efficacy of mother were medium level. There are positive relationship between breast-feeding perception of the mothers, who join to researh and their ages. It is stated that there is direct proportion with the numbers of pregnancy of mothers and the self- efficacy perception of the number of babies who live. It is stated that the birth week of baby and birth weight and the age of baby during research effected to self- efficacy perception. Keywords; breastfeeding, self- efficacy, related factors, breastfeeding duration