The Effect of Web-Based Breastfeeding Education Based on Knowledge, Motivation, Behavioral Skills Model on Fathers' Breastfeeding Support

A structured, model-based online education program designed to increase fathers' knowledge about breastfeeding through interactive lessons, videos, and resources. Fathers will be informed about breastfeeding during the postpartum period. The breastfeeding knowledge test will be completed two weeks after baseline data collection, and motivational interviews will be planned according to fathers' needs.

Motivational interview sessions aimed to strengthen fathers' motivation for breastfeeding and improve supportive behaviors. These sessions will begin between postpartum days 13-17 after the information phase is complete. The number of sessions will be based on fathers' needs (minimum of two and up to four). Each session's duration will follow the Turkish Ministry of Health's Postpartum Care Guide (2018). The second session will occur between postpartum days 21-30. After the motivational interviews are completed, fathers will have received information and motivation according to the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) Model. Education and interview sessions will continue until postpartum day 42, shaped according to fathers' needs. At the end of all trainings, fathers are expected to have developed the skills to support mothers during breastfeeding and to have gained self-efficacy in the breastfeeding process