Knowledge and Attitudes of Mothers About Breastfeeding During COVID-19 Infection

Aim: The aim of this study is; to obtain information about the knowledge and attitudes of mothers who live in Tekirdağ region with high risk contact of COVID-19 in family or who have been diagnosed with a definite laboratory finding of COVID-19 about breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic period.Materials and Methods: Mothers with COVID-19 high risk contact in the family and have been diagnosed with definite laboratory findings of COVID-19 who are living in Tekirdağ and having a baby between 30 days and 6 months were included in the study. The records of the patients were obtained from Namık Kemal University Medical School, Pediatric Outpatient Clinic Well Child Unit and a questionnaire was applied to the volunteers who accepted to be included in the study. 31 mothers who met the study criteria were reached and 28 of them agreed to participate in the study. After reaching the whole study group, the survey data were collected and their demographic characteristics and breastfeeding experiences, information sources and attitudes during the COVID-19 process were processed using IBM SPSS 20.0 package program and p