Development of a breast-feeding support program for mothers who raise one-month-old babies in postpartum accommodation care facilities

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26670996
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Lifelong developmental nursing
• Research Institution: Musashino University
• Principal Investigator: TAKAYAMA Nami 武蔵野大学, 看護学部, 講師 (00459132)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 小泉 仁子 筑波大学, 医学医療系, 客員教授 (20292964) ; 那須野 順子 武蔵野大学, 看護学部, 講師 (20513211)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 宿泊型産後ケア施設 / 疲労 / 授乳支援 / 育児不安 / 虐待予防

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present study aimed to develop a breast-feeding support program for mothers who raise their newborn babies aged less than one month at postpartum care facilities according to the degree of fatigue. There were no significant differences in the degree of fatigue among breast-feeding mothers using different methods. However, most mothers felt pain and fatigue in their shoulders and low back. A lack of sleep and physical, psychiatric, and child-raising-related fatigue experienced by mothers with low back pain were significantly severer compared with mothers without low back pain. Since those symptoms were considered to have been caused by fatigue due to day-and-night breast-feeding, it is important to help mothers learn to bread-feed their babies while feeling relaxed both physically and psychologically, as well as provide daily life support for them to alleviate low back pain. It is necessary to develop breast-feeding support programs that can be adapted to the level of fatigue.

Free Research Field

看護学