Influence of home environment and social characteristics on breast feeding selection among hepatitis B virus carrying pregnant women

Abstract

Objective To investigate the home environment and social characteristics among hepatitis B virus (HBV) carrying pregnant women and to analyze their influence on breast feeding selection. Methods From January 2016 to December 2016, we selected 77 HBV carrying delivery women with hospital delivery of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University by convenient chester sampling. All of them were divided into the group of breast feeding (n=31) and the group of non-breast feeding (n=46) according to whether to select breast feeding after delivery. Home environment and social characteristics of delivery women were assessed with the Family Environment Scale-Chinese Version (FES-CV) and we analyzed the influence factors of breast feeding. Results Among HBV carrying pregnant women, the scores of 10 aspects of FES-CV ranged from low to high including achievement orientation (3.16±1.14) , active-recreational orientation (3.29±1.19) , intellectual-cultural orientation (3.72±1.16) , conflict (4.47±1.45) , expressiveness (4.94±1.59) , cohesion (5.11±1.49) , independence (5.17±1.73) , organization (5.47±1.76) , control (5.92±2.05) , ethics (6.70±2.18) . The scores of cohesion, independence, achievement orientation, intellectual-cultural orientation and active-recreational orientation of group of breast feeding were higher than those of group of non-breast feeding (t=7.066, 6.193, 8.342, 7.302, 8.903; P 0.05) . Conclusions HBV carrying pregnant women still face with the high level of family and social pressure. HBV carrying pregnant women without breast feeding are with the low level of cohesion, independence, achievement orientation, intellectual-cultural orientation, active-recreational orientation and high conflict of home environment and social characteristics. Key words: Hepatitis B virus; Pregnant women; Home environment; Social characteristics; Breast feeding