Tarrant Marie, Dodgson Joan E
Department of Nursing Studies, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 2007 May-Jun;36(3):243-54. doi: 10.1111/j.1552-6909.2007.00144.x.
To explore relationships between university students' infant feeding knowledge, attitudes, breastfeeding exposures, and future infant feeding intentions.
Descriptive cross-sectional survey.
This study was conducted at a large publicly funded university in Hong Kong. Student enrollment in the university is approximately 15,000.
Four hundred three male and female Chinese university students. Participants were young (94.4% less than 25 years of age), undergraduate students (92.2%), unmarried (99.2%), and without children (100%).
Sixty-three percent of participants wanted their future child to be breastfed. Infant feeding knowledge scores ranged from 28.6% to 100%, with a mean of 71.1% (SD= 13.3), indicating overall high knowledge levels. Participants who intended to breastfeed were more likely to have positive attitudes, to have been breastfed themselves, or to know someone who had breastfed.
The results provide information to health care providers on the planning of effective breastfeeding promotion programs. Findings from this study suggest that promoting breastfeeding solely to childbearing couples is unlikely to result in significant improvements in either breastfeeding initiation or duration. Future infant feeding campaigns should be directed at the societal level to change negative attitudes and to increase acceptance of breastfeeding as a normal and natural feeding method.
探讨大学生的婴儿喂养知识、态度、母乳喂养经历与未来婴儿喂养意向之间的关系。
描述性横断面调查。
本研究在香港一所大型公立大学开展。该大学的学生入学人数约为15000人。
403名中国男女大学生。参与者较为年轻（94.4%年龄小于25岁），为本科生（92.2%），未婚（99.2%），且无子女（100%）。
63%的参与者希望他们未来的孩子进行母乳喂养。婴儿喂养知识得分在28.6%至100%之间，平均为71.1%（标准差=13.3），表明总体知识水平较高。打算进行母乳喂养的参与者更有可能持有积极态度，自己曾接受母乳喂养，或认识进行母乳喂养的人。
研究结果为医疗保健提供者规划有效的母乳喂养促进项目提供了信息。本研究结果表明，仅向育龄夫妇推广母乳喂养不太可能显著提高母乳喂养的开始率或持续时间。未来的婴儿喂养活动应针对社会层面，以改变负面态度，并提高对母乳喂养作为一种正常和自然喂养方式的接受度。
