The Effect of Video-assisted Breastfeeding Education Given to Mothers of Hospitalized Newborns on Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding rates of infants in intensive care units in the world and in Turkey are undesirably low due to the conditions of infants, mothers and healthcare workers, which threatens the health of newborns in many aspects in the early and future periods. It is thought that the visual materials and tools used in breastfeeding education can be effective both in the permanence of the acquired knowledge and in the transformation of the knowledge into behavior. This study was conducted to determine the effect of video-assisted breastfeeding and breastfeeding education given to mothers of hospitalized newborns on breastfeeding self-efficacy and breastfeeding success. Hypotheses Hypothesis 01: Video-assisted breastfeeding and breastfeeding education given to mothers of hospitalized newborns does not affect breastfeeding self-efficacy of mothers. Hypothesis 1: Video-assisted breastfeeding and breastfeeding education given to mothers of hospitalized newborns increases mothers' breastfeeding self-efficacy. Hypothesis 02: Video-assisted breast milk and breastfeeding education given to mothers of hospitalized newborns does not affect mothers' breastfeeding success. Hypothesis 2: Video-assisted breastfeeding and breastfeeding education given to mothers of hospitalized newborns increases the breastfeeding success of mothers. This research is a non-randomized quasi-experimental study in a two-group pretest-posttest design. The research was carried out in the neonatal intensive care level 2 unit of a university hospital located in the north of Turkey. In the study, mothers who met the inclusion criteria were assigned to the education group (EG) (n=44) and the control group (CG) (n=44), some mothers did not continue the education program and left the study. In this case, the study was completed with 41 mothers in EG and 43 mothers in CG. Video assisted breastfeeding training was given to the intervention group. Only the hospital's routine general breastfeeding training was giv