Diane, I developed a BF attitudes for perinatal nurses, but it is sort of generic(1991). 14 items, statements, using 5 point Likert scale, from strongly agree to strongly disagree. I started out with 72 items from a review of 5 articles that measured BF attitudes. The articles might help this student. The pilot showed that the 14 items explained 79.4% of the variance in BF attitudes and had .74 Cronbach's alpha for internal consistency. My neutral point was 42. The mean was 44.77 (SD= 5.68) with a range of 29 (she really didn't like BF) to 66 (an enthusiastic BF supporter). The majority of the perinatal nurses (n=150, 62.8%) in this study had positive BF scores. When you look at the histogram you can clearly see that the answers strongly clustered between 38 to 46. So these perinatal nurses were slightly negative about BF to slightly positive. P.S. Their BF attitudes and personal characteristics ended up having nothing to do with whether or not the nurse was inclined to use research based BF knowledge in the hospital. The things that influenced the use of research based knowledge in clinical practice were: hospital BF practices (!), BF knowledge score, on-the-job training, required continuing ed, attendence at workshops and conferences (see we ARE infectious really) and the best one: self report of ability to help mothers with BF (!!!!!) In other words, if the perinatal nurse was confident that she could help mom, she did! Be glad to share. Sincerely, Pat in SNJ