2018
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0494
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Knowledge of healthcare professionals about breastfeeding and supplementary feeding

Abstract: Objective: To analyze the knowledge of breastfeeding (BF) and supplementary feeding (SF) of professionals in the Primary Health Care. Method: Cross-sectional study, with 168 professionals, conducted between June and September 2016. The Kruskal Wallis test was used to compare means of percentage of knowledge about BF and SF, by professional category and contingency testing, for association between variables. Results: From the total of professionals, 39.29% of them demonstrated good knowledge about BF and 2.38… Show more

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“…Some primiparas have insufficient knowledge of breastfeeding, so they reject breastfeeding and fail to continue breastfeeding. Therefore, changing the feeding intention of primiparas and urging them to continue breastfeeding are important measures to encourage breastfeeding (13,14). The TPB was first proposed by US psychologist Ajzen in 1985.…”
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“…Some primiparas have insufficient knowledge of breastfeeding, so they reject breastfeeding and fail to continue breastfeeding. Therefore, changing the feeding intention of primiparas and urging them to continue breastfeeding are important measures to encourage breastfeeding (13,14). The TPB was first proposed by US psychologist Ajzen in 1985.…”
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“…Sobre o conhecimento dos profissionais de saúde quanto ao aleitamento materno, um estudo realizado com profissionais da equipe de atenção primária do município de Picos-PI, por meio de um instrumento com 44 questões sobre o assunto, constatou que 63,20% afirmaram ter participado de treinamento sobre aleitamento materno e 78,57% dos profissionais afirmaram realizar orientações sobre, o maior índice de acertos no instrumento foi dos profissionais médicos e enfermeiros (12) . acreditavam que o bebê poderia mamar em outra mulher (13) .…”
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“…In Brazil, the oral health teams of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) can develop practices to promote, protect, and support BF in prenatal care and during the postpartum period, enabling the monitoring of children from birth. Actions to promote and support EBF does not require sophisticated technological approaches and promote bene ts related to maternal and child health [8][9][10] .…”
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“…When prioritizing actions for increasing the rates of EBF, it is essential to understand the determinants that modify the maternal intention to breastfeed and consider that the maternal knowledge about the bene ts of BF alone is not enough to ensure its initiation and duration [8][9][10][11] . In this sense, maternal behavior for BF can be examined from the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) perspective, which allows a better understanding of which factors in uence the mother's decision to breastfeed 11 .…”
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