Effectiveness of Education Programme on Students’ Breastfeeding Attitude

Breastfeeding has short-term and long-term health benefits for infants and mothers.. Breast milk remains the best food for the proper development and growth of infants. Longer durations of breastfeeding also contribute to the health and well-being of mothers. A total of 400 adolescent girl students were included in this study. It is revealed that mean attitude score of the student increased from 67.51 to 82.87 with an increase of 15.36 (22.75%) after administration of teaching programme. Paired‘t’ test between pre test and post test was found to be 50.78 which is highly significant at p=<0.001. The use of structured teaching program is found to be effective in improving attitude of the adolescents on breastfeeding.