Breastfeeding and Husband's attitude

Kushartati, Sri (2018) Breastfeeding and Husband's attitude. Proceeding 4th UPHEC Universitas Ahmad Dahlan International Conference on Public Health: Improving Quality of Life through Multi Sector Collaboration. pp. 222-231.

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Abstract

There are factors that may influence the succeed of breastfeeding, one of them is the importance of husband’s support. Husband should have a supportive attitude towards breastfeeding. The aimed of this study were to determine the attitude of husband’s towards breastfeeding and identify factors that affect the attitude towards breastfeeding. This researched used qualitative method with phenomenology approach. Data collected using semi-structured interview continued with content analysis to analized the data. There are three husband involved in this research whose wives still breastfeeding their children aged between 0-1 years old and also involved three significant person as data source triangulation. The result showed that three subjects showed a supportive attitude that appears from the cognitive response which is related to their knowledge about breastfeeding and the benefit of breastmilk to baby, affective response related to pleasure feeling, satisfaction and grateful that his child got breastfed and also felt the benefit, as well as conative thar related to the tendency behaviors and concrete action that have been done by all participants in example provide assistance to their wife so that their wife could breastfeeding smoothly and even participate in promoting or sharing information about the importance of breastfeeding to their friends, family or colleague. Furthermore, factors that influence their attitude to support breastfeeding was their personal experience, their sifnificant other especially their wife, and the mass media. On this research, the influence of religious factor was found in subject number three. Lastly, on subject number one and number three, the involvement with breastfeeding community was also factor that affect their attitude to support breastfeeding.

Item Type:	Artikel Umum
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisi / Prodi:	Faculty of Psychology (Fakultas Psikologi) > S1-Psychology (S1-Psikologi)
Depositing User:	Sri Kushartati
Date Deposited:	01 Apr 2023 01:57
Last Modified:	01 Apr 2023 01:57
URI:	http://eprints.uad.ac.id/id/eprint/42052

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