| Breast-feeding attitudes and practices among Vietnamese mothers in Ho Chi Minh City. | |
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PMID: 21458893 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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OBJECTIVE: to describe breast-feeding attitudes and practices among Vietnamese women in Ho Chi Minh City. DESIGN: a descriptive qualitative study was used. The theory of planned behaviour provided the conceptual framework. SETTING: the Well-baby Clinic, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of a university hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. PARTICIPANTS: 23 voluntary Vietnamese mothers. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: semi-structured in-depth interview with five open-ended questions and observation was used. The interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed verbatim. The data from the interviews and observations were analysed by use of content analysis. FINDINGS: five categories of breast-feeding attitudes and practices were identified: breast-feeding best but not exclusive, cultural and traditional beliefs, infant feeding as a learning process, factors influencing decision to breast feed, and intention to feed the child. KEY CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: cultural and traditional beliefs and practices, and socio-economic situation, influenced the Vietnamese mothers' breast feeding. Health-care professionals should consider cultural context and socio-economic issues when preparing infant feeding education and intervention programmes. Appropriate knowledge about cultural values should be included in health-care education in order to provide culturally congruent care to Vietnamese mothers in Vietnam as well as in Western countries. |
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Pranee C Lundberg; Trieu Thi Ngoc Thu |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-4-1 |
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Title: Midwifery Volume: - ISSN: 1532-3099 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Apr |
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Created Date: 2011-4-4 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8510930 Medline TA: Midwifery Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Box 563, SE-751 22 Uppsala, Sweden. |
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