アイマークレコーダーによる母乳栄養指導時の観察ポイントの検討

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Using an eye mark recorder, we measured the observation of breastfeeding pictures by breastfeeding support professionals (professional group) and those who had no experience of breastfeeding (inexperienced group). When a picture of an infant’s face was presented, the professional group carefully observed the infant’s mouth and throat, and when a whole body picture was presented, they carefully observed the infant’s body and the mother’s part. In contrast, the places the inexperienced group observed varied amongst the subjects. Regarding the number of eye movements, the professional group was found to turn their eyes to the mother’s part a significantly larger number of times than the inexperienced group. When the subjects were asked to judge whether the mothers in the pictures had breastfeeding problems or not, a higher percentage of the professional group replied that they could not judge, while the inexperienced group tended to assume that the pictures given in books or other materials must be examples of either good or bad breastfeeding. Breastfeeding support should be provided with the understanding that, except for breastfeeding support professionals, attention is paid to different places in breastfeeding pictures. The results also suggest that breastfeeding pictures presented to nursing or expecting mothers should be those they can easily judge whether the mothers in the pictures had breastfeeding problems or not and where they should pay attention.