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The encouraging factors of breastfeeding among women academicians in Malaysian higher education institution of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

Breast milk is babies' best food. It contains balance nutritions to help save babies from diseases. However, the busy life of a career woman foils the desire to provide for full lactation. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify the encouraging factors for breastfeeding among women acad...

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Main Authors: Normadiah, Daud, Che Suhaili, Che Taha, Nadhirah, Nordin, Norsuhaily, Abu Bakar, Zurita, Mohd.Yusoff
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Published: 2015
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H Social Sciences (General)
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
RA Public aspects of medicine
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spelling my-unisza-ir.49192022-01-26T08:12:28Z http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/4919/ The encouraging factors of breastfeeding among women academicians in Malaysian higher education institution of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia Normadiah, Daud Che Suhaili, Che Taha Nadhirah, Nordin Norsuhaily, Abu Bakar Zurita, Mohd.Yusoff H Social Sciences (General) HQ The family. Marriage. Woman RA Public aspects of medicine Breast milk is babies' best food. It contains balance nutritions to help save babies from diseases. However, the busy life of a career woman foils the desire to provide for full lactation. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify the encouraging factors for breastfeeding among women academicians in conjunction to apply these factors to all career women in general. The study was carried out by the method of quantitative and field studies strategy. Data were collected through questionnaires and interviews by experts in each particular field. A total of 140 out of 180 respondents were selected from a number of selected Malaysian Higher Education Institution in the locality of Kuala Terengganu, i.e., MARA University of Technology (UiTM) Kuala Terengganu, University of Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) and University of Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA). Data obtained were analyzed using the software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The results showed that the respondents had a variety of encouraging factors involving the self factor of nursing mother, the husband, the infant child and the mother's milk factor. However, the most popular encouraging factor for breastfeeding among the respondents among others was the mother's milk factor due to the wondrous efficacy of colostrum in the milk content with a mean of 3.91 (140 respondents). These findings proved that knowledge plays, an important role in the success of any implementation issue (face to face) the implementation of breastfeeding among nursing mothers. 2015-01 Article PeerReviewed Normadiah, Daud and Che Suhaili, Che Taha and Nadhirah, Nordin and Norsuhaily, Abu Bakar and Zurita, Mohd.Yusoff (2015) The encouraging factors of breastfeeding among women academicians in Malaysian higher education institution of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. The Social Sciences, 10 (3). ISSN 1818-5800
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
RA Public aspects of medicine
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
RA Public aspects of medicine
Normadiah, Daud
Che Suhaili, Che Taha
Nadhirah, Nordin
Norsuhaily, Abu Bakar
Zurita, Mohd.Yusoff
The encouraging factors of breastfeeding among women academicians in Malaysian higher education institution of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
description Breast milk is babies' best food. It contains balance nutritions to help save babies from diseases. However, the busy life of a career woman foils the desire to provide for full lactation. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify the encouraging factors for breastfeeding among women academicians in conjunction to apply these factors to all career women in general. The study was carried out by the method of quantitative and field studies strategy. Data were collected through questionnaires and interviews by experts in each particular field. A total of 140 out of 180 respondents were selected from a number of selected Malaysian Higher Education Institution in the locality of Kuala Terengganu, i.e., MARA University of Technology (UiTM) Kuala Terengganu, University of Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) and University of Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA). Data obtained were analyzed using the software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The results showed that the respondents had a variety of encouraging factors involving the self factor of nursing mother, the husband, the infant child and the mother's milk factor. However, the most popular encouraging factor for breastfeeding among the respondents among others was the mother's milk factor due to the wondrous efficacy of colostrum in the milk content with a mean of 3.91 (140 respondents). These findings proved that knowledge plays, an important role in the success of any implementation issue (face to face) the implementation of breastfeeding among nursing mothers.
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author Normadiah, Daud
Che Suhaili, Che Taha
Nadhirah, Nordin
Norsuhaily, Abu Bakar
Zurita, Mohd.Yusoff
author_facet Normadiah, Daud
Che Suhaili, Che Taha
Nadhirah, Nordin
Norsuhaily, Abu Bakar
Zurita, Mohd.Yusoff
author_sort Normadiah, Daud
title The encouraging factors of breastfeeding among women academicians in Malaysian higher education institution of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
title_short The encouraging factors of breastfeeding among women academicians in Malaysian higher education institution of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
title_full The encouraging factors of breastfeeding among women academicians in Malaysian higher education institution of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
title_fullStr The encouraging factors of breastfeeding among women academicians in Malaysian higher education institution of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed The encouraging factors of breastfeeding among women academicians in Malaysian higher education institution of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
title_sort encouraging factors of breastfeeding among women academicians in malaysian higher education institution of kuala terengganu, malaysia
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