Effects of coaching mother program on maternal behavior regarding breaslfeeding jaundice prevention and on late-preterm newborns' blood bilirubin levels
Abstract:
Neonatal Jaundice especially breastfeeding jaundice, insufficient milk intake, in late preterm infants are a major illness problem. The coaching mother program help mothers to have behaviors to prevent jaundice from insufficient milk intake. Including late preterm infants do not have jaundice and normal blood bilirubin levels. Purpose of this quasi-experimental research was to examine effects of coaching mother program on maternal behavior regarding breastfeeding jaundice prevention and late preterm newborns blood bilirubin levels. The sample consisted of mothers and late term preterm infants who were admitted to the postnatal ward, Samut Prakan Hospital. The sample was divided equally into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received the coaching mother program and received routine care in the hospital. The control group received routine care in the hospital. The instruments were the coaching mother program and behavioral questionnaire for preventing jaundice from insufficient milk intake. The content validity index was .95 and the Cronbachs alpha was .804. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, independent t-test, and dependent t-test. The results revealed that the difference mean scores of maternal behavior regarding breastfeeding jaundice prevention in experimental group was significantly higher than those of control group (t 38= 19.22, p<.001). The difference mean scores of late preterm newborns blood bilirubin levels in experimental group was significantly lower than those of control group. (t 38= -2.1, p<.05) The findings indicate that nurses can apply the coaching mother program to appropriately promote maternal behavior regarding breastfeeding jaundice prevention in late preterm infants.