Patient Review of the Instruction Activity with Visual Message Brochure that Include the Benefıts of Breastmilk and Breastfeeding Techniques

Aim: in our research, it is intended to increase breastfeeding knowledge of mother with visual brochures and interactive education. methods: this research is a quasi-experimental study with posttest control group which designed to determine differences in training methods on influence of effective breastfeeding and breastfeeding self-efficacy. the research completed in a pay hospital in istanbul. research samples are present 30 control constitutes and 30 test, total of 60 women who accept to join the research between april 2015 – august 2015 and selected by nonprobability sampling method. our research has received the necessary ethic permission to establish our work. results: when examining individual characteristics, age avarage is 23.42; education characteristics, %51.7 primary school graduate. when latch breastfeeding diagnostic scale used there is a significant difference on mothers breastfeeding success between educated by interactive teaching methods and verbal trainings (p<0.05). mothers educated by interactive teaching methods success are higher. when breastfeeding self-efficacy scores are compared there is also a significant difference between educated by interactive teaching methods and verbal trainings. the visual brochure given has positively affected to increase breastfeeding self-efficacy (p<0.05).conclusion: the importance of education in improving breastfeeding success is great. and visual materials used also helped to increase this success.