title: [Correlations of father's attitudes regarding breast feeding, father-infant attachment and marital adjustment].
abstract: The purposes of this study were to examine the relationships of fathers' attitudes regarding breast feeding, father-infant attachment, marital adjustment, and partner's feeding method, and explore the predictors of fathers' attitudes regarding breast-feeding and partner's feeding method. A descriptive correlational method of investigation was implemented. A total of 210 fathers were recruited to participate in this study from the Kaohsiung City area. The results of this study were: (1) Fathers' attitudes regarding breast feeding were positive. (2) Fathers of breast-fed infants showed significantly more positive attitudes to breast feeding and significantly better marital adjustment. (3) Father's attitudes regarding breast-feeding, father-infant attachment, were positively or related with marital adjustment. (4) The best subsets to predict fathers' attitudes regarding breast-feeding included partner's feeding method, socioeconomic status, marital adjustment, and whether they had participated in deciding the feeding method; together, these subsets accounted for 20% of the total variance. (5) The best subsets to predict partner's feeding method were parity and father's attitudes regarding breast-feeding. This study reveals the importance of evaluating fathers' attitudes regarding breast-feeding and marital adjustment in terms of enhancing family-centered nursing and breast-feeding compliance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Chungtai Institute of Health Sciences and Technology.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D001942:Breast Feeding; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D013624:Taiwan