Development of a Breastfeeding Supportive Mobile Application

This work; The aim of this study was to develop a breastfeeding-supporting mobile application and to determine the effect of this application on breastfeeding self-efficacy and outcomes of primiparous. The research is planned to be carried out in two stages. In the first phase of the research, a mobile breastfeeding application based on Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Theory will be developed. In the second phase of the study, a single-blind randomized pre-test-post-test control group intervention study design will be used to examine the effect of this developed application on breastfeeding self-efficacy and outcomes of primiparous.The main questions it aims to answer are:Does the breastfeeding-supporting mobile application based on the Breastfeeding-Self-Efficacy Theory change the breastfeeding-self-efficacy of women?Does a breastfeeding support mobile application based on the Breastfeeding-Self-Efficacy Theory change the rate of women starting breastfeeding within the first hour after birth?Does a breastfeeding-supporting mobile application based on the Breastfeeding-Self-Efficacy Theory change women's time to breastfeed alone?Does a breastfeeding support mobile application based on the Breastfeeding-Self-Efficacy Theory change the breastfeeding duration of women?

Inclusion Criteria:Volunteering to participate in the study,Being 18 years or older (18-45 years old),To know how to read and write in Turkish,Not having a visual-hearing disability,24-36. to be between weeks of pregnancy,Being primiparous,Single pregnancy,Wanting to breastfeed,Not having received breastfeeding training in any period of pregnancy before,Using a smart phone,Absence of a diagnosed psychiatric illness.Exclusion Criteria:Women carrying fetus with major anomaly,Women with breastfeeding contraindications,Women with high-risk pregnancies,Women who received advice from physicians not to breastfeed due to their health status, If the baby has any of the infectious or metabolic conditions specified by WHO or the Ministry of Health for which breastfeeding is contraindicated, When a baby with a birth weight of less than 2500 g is born or taken to the neonatal intensive care unit,When a baby with a birth weight over 2500 g is taken to the neonatal intensive care unit due to the week of birth, the mother will continue to receive information from the application, but will be excluded from the analysis.