关键词: 健康教育, 母乳喂养, 喂养知识, 喂养技巧, 焦虑

Abstract: Objective To evaluate the role of health education in improving breastfeeding knowledge,breastfeeding behavior,and reducing the breastfeeding mother's anxiety. Methods By choosing 202 exclusively breastfeeding infant mothers with infants respectively at 1,2,3,4 months of age as investigation subjects,self-designed questionnaires were delivered to them to collect the information about the breastfeeding knowledge,the breastfeeding behaviors,the anxiety and other related things.According to the Results of questionnaires,the relevant education intervention were carried out face to face with the mothers about the knowledge of breastfeeding,feeding skills,and emotion regulation. Results After 4 times of health education interventions followed by interviews,infant and young children mother breastfeeding knowledge score increased from 8.43 to 9.55; The ratio of empty suction on one side after the other rose from 73.3% to 87.5% during the breastfeeding; With mothers' anxiety dropping from 18.8% to 13.1%,the proportion of the differences was statistically significant. Conclusion Health education plays an obvious promoting role in improving the knowledge and skills about mother breastfeeding as well as reducing the mother's anxiety.

Key words: health education, breastfeeding, feeding knowledge, feeding skills, anxiety