Breastfeeding abandonment associated with mastitis in mothers attended at Santa Isabel district hospital, el Porvenir

Abstract

Breastfeeding provides many benefits for both mothers and children, but there are cases in which this noble practice has been abandoned attributed to being primiparous mothers, having to work away from home, perceiving that the child is dissatisfied or problems related to the breast and the nipple resulting from the inefficient technique to breastfeed the child and its relation to the appearance of mastitis, an inflammation of the breast, which usually occurs in the postpartum period. The goal of the present research was to determine if there is a relationship

between the breastfeeding abandonment and mastitis in mothers attended in the Santa Isabel District Hospital, El Porvenir. The type of study was descriptive with a correlational design. For the collection of data, a data collection form validated through expert judgment was used. A hundred and six (106) medical records of the mothers seen in the gynecology - obstetrics ward of the aforementioned hospital during the period July – November 2011 were reviewed. Among the findings, it was evidenced that there is a significant relationship (p<0,5) between the presence of mastitis and breastfeeding abandonment. It was determined that from 58,7% of mothers who did not suffer mastitis, 7,5% abandoned breastfeeding compared to 45,3% of mothers who suffered mastitis, where 17% abandoned this noble practice.