Severe lactational mastitis: particularities from admission - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 01-01-2015;68(6):1116-1121
to identify characteristics of women who have suffered severe lactational mastitis.
a descriptive, retrospective, documentary, quantitative study was performed. Data were collected from patient records of 114 hospitalized women from January of 2009 to December of 2013. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics.
a higher percentage of severe lactational mastitis was found in young, primiparous women who had completed high school, who had no partner, and did not have a job; 96.5% of women had breast complications before admission and remained hospitalized an average of 4.4 days; at discharge, 23.7% of women had weaned their infants.
this study showed that severe lactational mastitis can cause great harm to the woman and the baby.
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to identify characteristics of women who have suffered severe lactational mastitis.
a descriptive, retrospective, documentary, quantitative study was performed. Data were collected from patient records of 114 hospitalized women from January of 2009 to December of 2013. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics.
a higher percentage of severe lactational mastitis was found in young, primiparous women who had completed high school, who had no partner, and did not have a job; 96.5% of women had breast complications before admission and remained hospitalized an average of 4.4 days; at discharge, 23.7% of women had weaned their infants.
this study showed that severe lactational mastitis can cause great harm to the woman and the baby.
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