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Title: | Turkish women’s knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors on wet-nursing, milk sharing and human milk banking | Authors: | Ergin, Ahmet Uzun, Süleyman Utku |
Keywords: | Attitude Human milk bank Knowledge Turkey Wet-nurse adult attitude to health breast feeding breast milk educational status ethnology female human middle aged milk bank mother psychology turkey (bird) Adult Attitude to Health Breast Feeding Educational Status Female Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Humans Middle Aged Milk Banks Milk, Human Mothers |
Publisher: | Springer New York LLC | Abstract: | Purpose The aim of this study was to determine Turkish women’s knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors on wet-nursing, milk sharing, and human milk banking in a primary care setting located in a semi-rural area. Description Donated human milk is a feasible option for feeding infants and children. Currently, there is a debate on the topic starts with the preparations to launch a human milk bank in a large city in Turkey. Several previous papers reported women’s opinions in large hospital based studies. Little is known about women’s views and practice on donated human milk in the rural areas of Turkey. Assessment The study sample was recruited among married women aged 15–49 years who had given birth within the past 5 years and who were in a family health center for any reason in Honaz, Denizli, Turkey. A total of 240 women were included in the study. The data were collected by questionnaire created by the researchers and consisting of two parts: sociodemographic characteristics, and women’s knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors on wet-nursing, milk sharing and human milk banking. Results Thirty women (12.5%) had had a wet-nurse; 20 women (8.7%) wet-nursed babies before; and 17 (7.2%) of the women’s children had a wet-nurse. If necessary, 80.9 and 78.3% were willing to accept to do wet-nursing and milk sharing, respectively. 150 (62.5%) heard of human milk banks; 55 (22.9%) approved of the establishment of milk banks. However, only 46 women (19.1%) were willing to donate to the bank. Possibility of marriages between milk siblings (76.8%) was the main reason for not considering the donation. Women’s education was another factor affecting their opinion on breast milk sharing and donation to human milk banks. Less educated women were sympathetic to milk sharing (p = 0.02), however, more educated mothers had a propensity to donate to milk banks (p = 0.02). Conclusion Wet-nursing decreased over the years in Turkey, but still an ongoing small child feeding method. Most of the women tend to become a wet nurse or do milk sharing if it is needed, but they are hesitant to donate their milk to human milk banks, mostly due to religious concerns. © 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/11499/10812 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-018-2433-1 |
ISSN: | 1092-7875 |
Appears in Collections: | PubMed İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / PubMed Indexed Publications Collection Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection Tıp Fakültesi Koleksiyonu WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection |
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