Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between family support and lactation management among working mothers. This research was a descriptive correlation with cross sectional approach, conducted among 35 working mothers who work as a nurse in Arifin Achmad Hospital in Pekanbaru taken with total sampling. A set of valid and reliable questionnaire used to collect the data. The results showed a correlation between family support and lactation management (r= 0.295) which means theres a weak positive correlation in different direction. P value= 0,086 (> 0,05), which indicates that there was no significant correlation between two variable. This result suggest a nurse as a working mother to improve their social environment while breastfeeding to motivate, persuade, and support them on performing optimally lactation management.
