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Volume 6, Issue 1 (Suppl) J Nurs Care
ISSN: 2167-1168 JNC, an open access journal Nursing Global 2017
March 01-02, 2017
March 01-02, 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands
24th Global
Nursing & Healthcare
The awareness of human milk bank in Korean mothers: Web-based survey
Nam Mi Kang1, Won-Ho Hahn2, Jia Jung3, Seunghyun Song4 and Hyun-Jun Kim 1
1Konkuk University, South Korea
2Soon Chun Hyang University, South Korea
3Asia Human Milk Research Center, South Korea
4University of Antwerp, Belgium
Aim: Human milk bank is known as one of the best alternative options for sick infants including premature infants. However, only
two human milk banks (HMBs) are working in Korea. In the present study, we evaluated the awareness on the HMB in Korean
mothers who had infants younger than 18 months old to find out the issues that would help establishment of HMB in Korea.
Methods: The survey questionnaire was developed by a team composed with neonatologists, obstetricians, nurses, nutritionists and
health care specialists. The internet survey was performed by sending emails to mothers who were registered to Maeil family members
have children younger than 18 months for 864 Korean women. Totally 864 questionnaire were received among 114,469 answers and
the results were analyzed.
Results: However, only 49% of subjects had awareness of the presence of HMB. Unfortunately, less than half of them could get
information about HMB by official way including mass media. In addition, 76% of subjects were found not to want to use HMB. Most
important reason was found as a concern on the safety of donor milk including lifestyle of donors, infection controls and possible
nutritional loss of banked milk.
Conclusion: The purpose and function of HMB is not widely educated and it seems to be most important for women who has
negative concept about HMB in Korea. Thus, further study is warranted with more numbers of subjects after active public education
about the HMB.
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIP) (No.
2015R1A2A1A15056046). This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea
government(MSIP) (No. 2015R1A2A1A15056046) and Korea-EU exchange program.
Biography
Nam Mi Kang has completed her PhD at Seoul National University and Post-doctoral studies at Texas Austin University School of Nursing. She is a Professor of
Nursing department at Konkuk University, South Korea. She has published many papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a society Director and review
member of Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing.
Nam Mi Kang et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:1 (Suppl)