Awareness and Practice of Breast Feeding among Mothers at Kiryandongo District Hospital (original) (raw)
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Background: Breast milk is natural and readily available. Exclusive breast feeding has been found to be benecial to the infants, mothers and the nation at large. However, the practice of exclusive breast feeding is suboptimal in developing and developed world. The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge, practice and barrier to practice of exclusive breast feeding among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study among consenting pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. Pregnant women with at least one previous live birth were selected using simple random sampling. Data were collected with the aid of a pretested questionnaire. Sociodemographic information, information on knowledge, perception, and intention to practice exclusive breast feeding were obtained and analyzed using IBM-SPSS statistics version-23. Association between categorical variables were determined using chisquare. Results: Majority of the respondents were within the age range of 30-39 years. All respondents were aware of exclusive breast feeding and 215 (86.0%) of them had good knowledge of exclusive breast feeding. The participants that had practiced exclusive breast feeding in their previous pregnancies were 151(60.4%). There was a statistically signicant association between previous practice of EBF and the intention to practice it after the delivery of the index pregnancy (p = 0.003). Resumption to work was the commonest barrier the practice of Exclusive Breast Feeding. Conclusion Respondents had good knowledge, positive perception towards exclusive breast feeding and majority practiced exclusive breast feeding.
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Goal: To assess the level of knowledge of nursing mothers about the practice of Exclusive Breastfeeding (EBF) and causes of early weaning in private institutions in the Federal District. Methods: The people who participated in the research: 102 nursing mothers with a mean age of (mean 31.13 ± 5.22), who answered a questionnaire consisting of 11 questions. Results: All mothers knew about EBF, but 73.79% did not perform it, and only 17.47% had been guided by a health professional regarding EBF, 46% of nursing mothers did not breastfeed their children. Conclusion: The practice of breastfeeding undoubtedly presents achievements and advances. However, the number of early weaning is significant, as can be seen in the practice of breastfeeding, low rate of mothers who underwent EBF, and mothers oriented about the practice of EBF.
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International Research Journal of Education and Technology, 2023
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is an important public health strategy for improving children's and mother's health by reducing child morbidity and mortality as well as helping to reduce healthcare costs. It is considered by health experts as one of the major strategies which help the most widely known and effective intervention for preventing early childhood deaths. It is against this background that this study was set to find out how knowledgeable the nursing mother are on the practices with corresponding attitude towards exclusive breast feeding. The cross sectional design was used with the aid of structured questionnaire to elicit information from the target population. A total of 457nursing mothers were purposively sampled and distributed with the structured questionnaire across the three senatorial districts in the state, out of which only 400 questionnaires were returned. Using SPSS package as a statistical tool for analysis, descriptive statistics and One Sample t-test statistics were used to analyse the data. The responses from qualitative data via the use of focus group discussion (FCD) were also analysed using ethnographic method. Deductively, it was found that there was relatively fair knowledge toward exclusive breast feeding, despite been knowledgeable, it was found that nursing mothers have negative attitude toward the practice of exclusive breast feeding. Majority of the nursing women saw no need of practicing EBF. The study also found that there were significantly differences in the use of exclusive breastfeeding among the nursing mothers. That is the old nursing women practice EBF than the young nursing mothers. Base on this, the study therefore recommends among others that there is need to intensify the awareness campaign toward the practice of EBF for a more healthy living of the babies that could go a long way in reducing the cost expenditure on healthcare service.
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Background: Exclusive Breastfeeding de ned as the infant has to receive only breast milk from his/her mother with the exception of other kinds of food for six months. Exclusive Breastfeeding helps to prevent diseases to infants and it reduces risk of ovarian cancer to mother. Methodology: Descriptive cross sectional study was conducted among 124 lactating mothers with infants aged 6 months to one year attending Magomeni RCH Clinic in Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam. Simple random sampling procedure was used to obtain 124 lactating mothers. Data was collected from mothers who agreed to participate and signed the consent form by the use of close ended Swahili version questionnaire on assessing knowledge, practices and factors affecting Exclusive Breastfeeding among Lactating Mothers with Babies aged 6 months to 1 year attending Magomeni Reproductive and Child Health Clinic in Kinondoni district, Dar es Salaam. Result: About 74 (59.7%) respondents had high knowledge on EBF and 92 (74.2%) respondents initiated breastfeeding within one hour after delivery while 77 (62.1%) practiced exclusive breastfeeding. Findings show that 64(51.6%) respondents denied that exclusive breastfeeding causes loss of shape of their breasts while 48 (38.7%) respondents accepted that exclusive breastfeeding causes loss of shape of their breasts. Only 12 (9.7%) respondents didn't know if EBF causes loss of breasts shape or not. Moreover, 19 (15.3%) respondents had physical di culties/problems like cracking of nipples, inadequate milk, while 105(84.7%) didn't get any physical di cult. Therefore there is signi cant association between mothers belief of losing shapes of their breasts and EBF (p=0.05). Physical di culties/problems to lactating mothers study is signi cantly associated with EBF (p = 0.000). Conclusion: The overall knowledge among the lactating mothers with babies aged six months to one year was high and had good exclusive breast feeding practice. Although majority of the respondents are knowledgeable about EBF, the results show a gap between knowledge and actual practice within six months which is a recommended duration for Exclusive Breast feeding.