Table 5.
Reactions to being unable to donate (showing strongly agree and agree) split by assumption could not donate versus did not donate after milk bank contact.
| Assumed could not (n = 391 | Told could not donate (n = 218 | Decided no (n = 59) | No response (n = 64) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | Significance | |
| Disappointed | 320 | 81.8 | 202 | 92.6 | 50 | 84.7 | 61 | 95.3 | F(3, 723) = 5.86, p = 0.01 |
| Frustrated | 301 | 76.9 | 197 | 90.3 | 48 | 81.3 | 48 | 75.0 | F(3, 723) = 14.35, p ≤ 0.001 |
| Like my milk would be wasted | 238 | 60.8 | 149 | 68.3 | 18 | 30.5 | 46 | 71.8 | F(3, 723) = 13.63, p ≤ 0.001 |
| Guilty that I couldn't donate | 245 | 62.6 | 138 | 63.3 | 37 | 62.7 | 54 | 84.4 | F(3, 723) = 5.96, p ≤ 0.001 |
| That breastfeeding wasn't valued | 219 | 56.0 | 108 | 49.0 | 15 | 25.4 | 51 | 79.7 | F(3, 723) = 23.10, p ≤ 0.001 |
| Upset | 218 | 55.7 | 145 | 47.2 | 36 | 61.1 | 50 | 78.1 | F(3, 723) = 8.26, p ≤ 0.001 |
| Unfair that I couldn't donate but others could | 185 | 47.3 | 103 | 47.3 | 11 | 18.6 | 57 | 89.1 | F(3, 723) = 26.58, p ≤ 0.001 |
| Rejected | 180 | 46.0 | 159 | 72.9 | 16 | 27.1 | 37 | 73.5 | F(3, 723) = 29.17, p ≤ 0.001 |
| Excluded | 161 | 41.1 | 116 | 53.2 | 11 | 18.6 | 34 | 53.1 | F(3, 723) = 12.87, p ≤ 0.001 |
| Like my milk wasn't good enough | 150 | 38.3 | 101 | 46.3 | 9 | 15.3 | 39 | 59.1 | F(3, 723) = 15.884, p ≤ 0.001 |
| Happy that I'd tried to donate | NA | NA | 140 | 64.2 | 23 | 39.0 | 23 | 35.9 | F(2, 333) = 11.80, p ≤ 0.001 |
| Relieved I would not be committing | 75 | 19.1 | 20 | 9.2 | 22 | 34.3 | 5 | 7.8 | F(3, 723) = 13.38, p ≤ 0.001 |
| Ambivalent, it didn't matter to me | 42 | 10.7 | 14 | 6.4 | 4 | 6.8 | 0 | 0.0 | F(3, 723) = 5.29, p = 0.01 |
Abbreviation: NA, not applicable.