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    Efecto de una intervención educativa en conocimientos y actitudes sobre lactancia materna en adolescentes embarazadas
    (Universidad de Murcia: servicio de publicaciones, 2025) Ospina Uribe, Martha Cecilia; Villegas Arenas, Dolly; Echandía Alvarez, Carlos Armando; Sin departamento asociado
    ntroduction:Breastfeeding is the ideal food for the proper development of the child, the decision to breastfeed and its maintenance in a teenage mother is a complex process, the support network and health systems play an important role.Objective: to determine whether an educational intervention improves knowledge and attitudes regarding breastfeeding in pregnant adolescents.Methods:Through an intragroup quasi-experimental investigation, the questionnaire was applied to evaluate knowledge and attitude about breastfeeding by Hernández et al. in pregnant adolescents who attended the prenatal control program of a low-level complexity health institution in Cali. Then, an educational intervention on breastfeeding was carried out with a debate among the participants and distribution of a brochure. Four weeks later, the questionnaire was administered again. The non-parametric sign test was used to estimate the effect.Results: Fifty-six pregnant adolescents were included, with an average age of 18.6 ± 1.8 years. Most had completed secondary education (84%), were single (78.6%), and belonged to the low socioeconomic stratum (57%). The majority were in their first pregnancy (87.5%) and 73% were classified as high obstetric risk because factors like being underweight (23%), being overweight (20%), having an early pregnancy (11%), and having an unwanted pregnancy (9%). Limited knowledge about breastfeeding was found among the participants; however, their attitudes were positive. Conclusions: Improvement in prior knowledge score, from a median of 3.6 to 4.5, was observed after the educational intervention (p < 0.001).