Role of Social Support in Breastfeeding for Adolescent Mothers

This article explores the role of social support in breastfeeding for adolescent mothers. It discusses the sources of social support and the impact of social support on breastfeeding. The study is qualitative in nature and involves in-depth interviews with seven participants. The article was published in KnE Life Sciences in 2018.

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HBS108 Assignment Task 1
Sourcing, Identifying and Evaluating Evidence
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author Note:

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Question 1
i. The title of the article is “Role of Social Support in Breastfeeding for Adolescent
Mothers”.
ii. The authors of this article are Restu A. Palupi and Shrimarti R. Devy.
iii. The year of publication is 2018.
iv. The title of the journal is “KnE Life Sciences”.
v. The digital object identifier is 10.18502/KLS.V4I4.2281.
Question 2
The four reasons are:-
i. The study topic deals with the social support in breastfeeding of adolescent
mothers which is a complicated issue in Indonesia and it needs to be analysed by
studying the interactions, moral and social supports received by the adolescent
mothers for this purpose. Therefore, there is no scope for the researcher to explore
the outcomes of numeric calculations. Rather, the study proceeds through the
analysis of the sources of the social supports (Palupi and Devy, 2018).
ii. There were only seven participants (women) involved in the study who were less
than 20 years older having a baby of 6-12 months old, residents of Sidotopo, and
previously or presently breastfed a baby. It shows that the targeted participants
were smaller. This is a possible reason for the study to be qualitative in nature.
iii. The data collected from the in-depth interviews are non-numeric and collected
through audio and visual output. It represents that the study is qualitative.

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iv. The analysis of the data was interpretive and subjective. It required the researcher
to make the participants realized the resolution of the problems. Thus, the nature
of the study is qualitative (Palupi and Devy 2018).
Question 3
i. The quantitative research hypotheses-
H0: There is no relationship between the social support and adolescent mothers’
encouragement in breastfeeding their babies
Against
H1: The social support has positive effect in encouraging adolescent mothers to
breastfeed their babies.
ii. The task is based on an existing research journal which is cited in the question paper.
Moreover, the requirement is to build a quantitative research hypothesis from that
journal. Building quantitative research hypothesis is an essential criteria for a
deductive research approach. In addition to this, the research hypothesis that are
designed, are capable to explain a relationship between the variables and the concepts
and also capable to build a structural equation model which is an advantage for
deductive approach. Thus, considering a quantitative research hypothesis leads the
research into deductive research approach (Bryman 2016).
iii. A qualitative research question is as follows-
Q. Will the social support be beneficial to improve the breastfeeding behaviors of the
adolescent mothers in Sidotopo, Indonesia?

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iv. The first step to build an inductive research approach is to construct qualitative
research question. The research question aims to explore new phenomenon on the
research topic. Again, the research question design in 3(iii) is grounded on the basic
theory of the research. Therefore, considering the qualitative research question will
take the research towards inductive research approach (Bryman 2016).
Question 4
The quantitative research hypothesis is selected here.
i. The article is selected from Wiley Online Library. Thus the database is John Wiley &
Sons Ltd.
ii. The search terms used to locate the article is “Social Support in Breastfeeding”, “Care
needed in breastfeeding for Adolescent Mothers”
iii. The Reference is - Brown, A., 2014. Maternal trait personality and breastfeeding
duration: the importance of confidence and social support. Journal of advanced nursing,
70(3), pp.587-598.
iv. The article aims to explore the maternal attitude and personality required for
breastfeeding initiation. A cross-sectional survey had been conducted in the year 2009
on 602 mothers having six to twelve months old baby. The result had shown that
mothers having high levels of emotional stability, sociability, and carefulness were
more interested to initiate breastfeeding. On the other hand, mothers suffering from
anxiety and unsociability need external support for breastfeeding. Therefore, the
mothers having negative attitude need potential social support during their critical time
of breastfeeding (Brown 2018).

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Question 5
i. This response belongs to “perception of problematic drinking” (Khadjesari et al.
2018).
ii. This response belongs to “life stage” category.
iii. This response belongs to “Reaction to screening and advice on drinking” category.
iv. This response can be categorized under “lifestyle” category (Khadjesari et al. 2018).
Question 6
i. Two journals:
a. The name of the journal is “Developing a social practice-based typology of
British drinking culture in 2009–2011: implications for alcohol policy analysis”.
The database is JohnWiley & Sons Ltd.
The search term is- “primary care patients’ views on drinking and its
consequences”.
b. Name of the journal- “Improvements in readiness to change and drinking in
primary care patients with unhealthy alcohol use: a prospective study. BMC
public health”.
The database is http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/9/101.
The search term is- “primary care patients’ views on drinking”.
ii. Abstract of the article (a)-
This article describes the worth of the social practices of the drinking culture in
Britain by designing a cross-sectional latent class analysis on the drinking diaries. It also
describes the consequences of heavy drinking in a social occasion, drinking alone at

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home and drinking with family. An empirical drinking culture model is built along with
the configuration of drinking practices (Ally et al. 2016).
Abstract of the article (b)-
The study aims to measure the action taken in readiness and increase in the
confidence for a primary patients regarding the harmful use of alcohol. It includes
quantitative data analysis and evaluation of the outcomes. The readiness, confidence, and
importance are scored on a 10 point rating scale. After six months of observation, the
result shows that the post primary visit has provided improvements for readiness,
confidence, and importance (Bertholet, Horton and Saitz 2009).
iii. The second journal article provides the most effective evidence. It provides a
quantitative study with numerical outcomes which is more acceptable in case of the
improvements achieved after a primary visit regarding drinking purpose. There has
been clear indication of the prevention of falls for the aged people in the latter article.
However, the former journal article talks about the enhancement in the drinking
culture and revision of the practices required in the social aspect for drinking.

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References
Ally, A.K., Lovatt, M., Meier, P.S., Brennan, A. and Holmes, J., 2016. Developing
a social practice‐based typology of British drinking culture in 2009–2011:
implications for alcohol policy analysis. Addiction, 111(9), pp.1568-1579.
Bertholet, N., Horton, N.J. and Saitz, R., 2009. Improvements in readiness to change and
drinking in primary care patients with unhealthy alcohol use: a prospective study. BMC public
health, 9(1), p.101.
Brown, A., 2014. Maternal trait personality and breastfeeding duration: the importance of
confidence and social support. Journal of advanced nursing, 70(3), pp.587-598.
Bryman, A., 2016. Social research methods. Oxford university press.
Khadjesari, Z., Stevenson, F., Toner, P., Linke, S., Milward, J. and Murray, E. (2018). ‘I’m not a
real boozer’: a qualitative study of primary care patients’ views on drinking and its
consequences. Journal of Public Health.
Palupi, R. and Devy, S. (2018). Role of Social Support in Breastfeeding for Adolescent Mothers.
KnE Life Sciences, 4(4), p.223.