Purpose: The purpose of this study is to help prenatal breastfeeding education interventions to improve breastfeeding knowledge of postpartum first-time mother and to practice them correctly. Ultimately, it aims to improve mother and child health.
Method: This study was conducted on prenatal breastfeeding education for 63 randomly expressed primiparous women who were 34 weeks after attending women's hospital in Cheonan for 4 months from IRB approval date (July 1, 2019) to November 10, 2019. This is a parallax similar experiment before and after the non-equivalence control group (31 patients) who received prenatal breastfeeding education and a control group who did not receive prenatal breastfeeding education (32). The subjects were pre-investigated with the selfreport questionnaire on general characteristics and knowledge of breastfeeding and after pre- investigation, the control group received general nursing care on the second day of delivery, and the experimental group received primary education (theory) and secondary education (practice) in the training room after 34 weeks of gestation. Follow-up surveys were conducted on self-reported questionnaires on the knowledge and practice of breastfeeding on the third and tenth day of postpartum. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS WIN 24.0.
Result: First, the effect of knowledge on breastfeeding intervention was higher in the experimental group than the control group (p = 〈. 001), and there was interaction between the group and the time point (p = 〈. 001). Knowledge by the time the degree was higher than in the pre-investigation delivered three days (p = 〈. 001) and 10 days after birth (p = 〈. 001).
Second, the breastfeeding practice scores after prenatal breastfeeding education were higher in the experimental group than in the control group on the 3rd and 10th day of delivery, and were statistically significant (p = 〈. 001).
Third, the breastfeeding practice rate was higher than the control group at 3 days after delivery but not statistically significant (χ² = 6.041, p = .196). On the 10th day of delivery, the experimental group had higher breastfeeding rate than the control group, which was statistically significant (χ² = 13.416, p = .004).
Conclusion: Prenatal breastfeeding education interventions can be expected to change the primiparous women knowledge and practice about breastfeeding, and they should try to ensure successful breastfeeding through continuous maternal care through the development of the hospital's active breastfeeding program.