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Aim: Regardless of their department they work, all doctors and nurses were consulted for their experiences about every point on health due to being an health proffesional.
Method: For this reason, this study is a descriptive study that aims to determine the knowledge of doctors and nurses who are not working in clinics related with child health on breast feeding. This study was performed in an university hospital and a national hospital between April 2006 and September 2006. The total of 200 samples were selected from doctors and nurses who were not study in delivery room, pediatric clinics or obstetric-gynecologist clinics. The datas were collected by a form that was developed by researchers. These datas were evaluated by percentage, chi-square, Fisher’s exact, Kolmogorov-Simirnov Z tests in SPSS for Windows 13.0.
Results: In this study, it was determined that 76% of participants were nurse, 24% of participants were doctor and 67.5 % of participants hadn’t worked in a preventive (primary) health services. It was determined that less than half of participants had attended to course/seminar/symposiums after their education. Therefore, it was also determined that the nurses who were undergraduate or master students believed that taurin; is an importat molecule present in breast milk; supports the growth of babies more commonly than the nurses who were high school graduated. There was no difference between the professions in comparisions of levels of knowledge about the amounts of protein,lipid, lactose and cholesterol in breast milk, the superiority of breast milk over formula and time of beginning of additional nutrition.
Conclusions: According to these findings, it can be suggested that doctors and nurses should be incited to participate in course/seminar/symposiums about breast feeding, they should be informed for new informations about breast feeding and it should be created practice areas where nurses can easily perform their theoretical knowledges.