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Gender role attitudes and other determinants of breast feeding intentions in Brazilian women
Author(s) -
Paine P,
Dorea J G
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2214.2001.00185.x
Subject(s) - breast feeding , perception , psychology , parity (physics) , duration (music) , developmental psychology , demography , medicine , social psychology , pediatrics , sociology , art , physics , literature , particle physics , neuroscience
Summary This study of 230 Brazilian mothers examined the associations of several sociodemographic variables, maternal attitudes and perceptions with intended breast feeding duration. The usual relationships of sociodemographic variables such as mother’s age, education, smoking, parity and infant birth weight with intended breast feeding duration were not found. However, mother’s intentions were related to gender role attitudes with both the least and the most traditional women intending to breast feed longer than women with moderately traditional gender role attitudes. Mother’s attitude toward breast feeding, help with household tasks, and the attitudes of friends and relatives toward breast feeding were also very significantly related to intended breast feeding duration. Women who did not work outside the home intended to breast feed significantly longer than those who were employed.