The contemporary obstetric model may expose women to interventions, which can be associated with perineal trauma due to episiotomy and severe spontaneous lacerations. Other factors are still described in the literature as generators of such outcomes, such as: instrumental delivery, nulliparity, prolonged expulsive, fetal macrosomia, shoulder dystocia, evasiveness of position. Thus, it is fundamental to detect w...
Objectives: Check the reliability and validity of Breastfeeding SelfEfficacy Scale - Short Form (BSES-SF) in Brazilian adolecent puerperal mothers who have recently given birth; and evaluate the association of scores of the BSES-SF with the socioeconomic and obstetric variables of the studied population. Methods: Methodological and quantitative study developed in a public maternity in Fortaleza involving 79 ado...