The original English version of BAPT was developed and revised by Janke. It was modified and translated into Chinese by the principal investigator using back translated approach. Then this Chinese version was back - translated into English by a bilingual nurse who is a Chinese native speaker. Then the back - translated version was compared with the original English version for semantic and conceptual equivalence. The modifications included deleting the items of breastfeeding subjective norm that did not fit for Chinese culture and using a 5 point Likert scale instead of 6 point Likert scale. This modifications were permitted by the developer. Then the modified BAPT had 47 items with three subscales. They are the breastfeeding attitude subscales with 29 items including positive and negative breastfeeding sentiment attitudinal, breastfeeding subjective norm subscale with 8 items, and breastfeeding control subscale with 10 items. The 5 point Likert scale is (1)strongly disagree to (5)strongly agree ; or (1)not at all important to me to (5)very important to me. For example,