Table 2.
Association Between Employees' Perceived Breastfeeding-Friendly Support and Use of Breast-Pumping Breaks Among Working Mothers
| Using breast-pumping breaks per day (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agree with the statement | Total (%) | Yes | No | p value for χ2 test |
| Awareness of lactation room after returning to work (yes) | 98.3 | 98.8 | 95.8 | 0.0173a |
| Awareness of breast-pumping breaks policy (yes) | 74.7 | 90.7 | 65.6 | < 0.0001 |
| Employer ever provide a lactation consultant (yes) | 37.2 | 43.6 | 33.6 | 0.0074 |
| Do you feel embarrassed if you use breast-pumping breaks? (yes) | 32.5 | 25.9 | 36.2 | 0.0046 |
| My colleagues encourage me to use breast-pumping breaks after returning to work (yes) | 76.6 | 86.9 | 70.8 | < 0.0001 |
| My supervisor encourages me to use breast-pumping breaks after returning to work (yes) | 59.4 | 71.0 | 52.9 | < 0.0001 |
| My environmental health nurses encourage me to use breast-pumping breaks after returning to work (yes) | 66.6 | 76.5 | 61.0 | < 0.0001 |
| I agree that two breast-pumping breaks can reduce a working mother's work efficiency (yes) | 51.1 | 40.9 | 56.8 | < 0.0001 |
| I feel that taking two breast-pumping breaks will influence a supervisor's evaluation of my performance (yes) | 45.2 | 38.6 | 48.9 | 0.0079 |
a
By Fisher's exact test.