Pattern of Breast Feeding Practices in a Selected Rural Area of Bangladesh (original) (raw)
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Breast feeding practices among rural women in a selected area of Bangladesh
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Breast feeding practice among the rural women in selected villages of Dumuria upazilla, Khulna
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A Study on Breast Feeding Practice of Mothers of Bangladesh: Perspective Dhaka City
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Breastfeeding practices of mother are effective way for reducing infant morbidity and mortality. Improper breastfeeding along with inadequate complementary feeding are the main reasons for malnutrition among the children in Bangladesh. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess and find the breast feeding practice in selected areas of Dhaka city with respect to socioeconomic and demographic condition. Here, 250 mothers and their 250 infants were considered to asses using a formative questionnaire. Within this sample size 129 (51.6%) were male infants and 121 (49.4%) were female infants respectively. This study found that the privilege of breast feeding practice progressively increases with the mother's education that has been started from less than high school level (below 10 classes) to bachelor's level or more than higher. In addition, this study found that about 84.8% lactating mothers have knowledge on what are colostrums. But surprisingly only 58% mothers gave colostrums to their infants. Furthermore, we found that the rate of exclusive breast feeding among three months and six months age infants were 51.2% and 27.2% respectively. Therefore, according to findings of this study it could be concluded that mothers in the Dhaka city should give more attention on breast feeding to her infants and subsequently prevent infant mortality and get a healthy child.
Breastfeeding Practices Among Women in a Selected Rural Area
Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine
Background: Breast milk is the only source of nutrition freely available to the newborn from the mother. Breast feeding is the fundamental right of every child. It is the safest, least allergic and best infant feeding method. Absence of breastfeeding significantly increases the risk for a large number of acute and chronic diseases. WHO recommends the practice of exclusive breastfeeding as an essential component of infant nourishment. This present study was conducted to find out the breastfeeding practice among the women of rural areas of Bangladesh. Methods: This cross-sectional type of descriptive study was carried out from October, 2015 to April, 2016 in Kaliakair Upazila under the district of Gajipur. Seven hundred and eighty mothers having children between 6-24 months’ age group were interviewed. Data were collected by face-to-face interview with the respondents through a pretested semi structured questionnaire. The study place was selected conveniently and the sampling techniqu...
Breast feeding is the optimal method for achieving a normal growth and development of the child. This study aimed to find out the breast feeding practice among the female patients attending in Dhamrai Upazila Health Complex, Bangladesh. A cross-sectional study of 110 women having child less than 5 years old was included using a semi structured questionnaire from 1st May to 15th May 2017. Sampling technique was convenience sampling. After collection the data were checked and verified and edited. Compilation and tabulation of data were done according to key variables by using computer and calculator. Importance of breast feeding was known to most mothers but initiation of breast feeding within one hour of birth was known by (62%) of mothers. 70.92% gave colostrum within one hour of the child birth. 32.44% gave all type of food in addition to breast milk during lactation period to their babies. 54% exclusively breast fed their babies for about 1–4 months, Half of them had continued breastfeeding for a total of 19 to 24 months. 54.55% of them gave Khichuri as a complementary food. 58.80% disagree regarding contraceptive advantage of breast milk and (77.27%) use contraceptive method during lactation period. Importance of breast feeding was known to most mothers. The condition can be improved if the importance of giving colostrum to the infant, early initiation of breast feeding after delivery, maintaining duration of exclusive breast feeding and improve maternal education is implemented. The grass root workers at the community level should be involved in providing health education to the mothers and other family members.
Breast Feeding Practices in a Rural Area of Haryana, India
Exclusive Breast Feeding (EBF) should be practiced for the first six months of life, to achieve optimum growth, development and health. In India, breastfeeding is almost universal, but the EBF rate is quite low.The present study was conducted to assess the pattern of breastfeeding practices in rural area of district Rohtak, Haryana. This Cross-sectional study was conducted in PHC Chiri area of block Lakhanmajra, rural field practice area attached with the Department of Community Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak during Sept.-Nov.2013. Two anganwadis were chosen randomly from each sub-centre; total of 12 anganwadis were taken. All registered mothers of infants aged 6-12 months from chosen anganwadis were included. A pre-tested, semi-structured interview schedule was used for interviewing the study subjects. A total of 166 mothers of infants aged 6-12 months, were registered at the anganwadis. 8 women, who could not be contacted even after two home visits were excluded from the study. Therefore, a total of 158 women were included in the present study. It was found that Less than one third of mothers (27.8%) initiated breastfeeding within 1hr and more than one third of mothers (36.7%) delayed initiation of feeding by more than 12 hrs. Commonest reason for late initiation was cited as family custom and traditional belief. Around one third of mothers exclusively breastfed for <1month. Only 19 % mothers did exclusive breastfeeding upto 6 months. It may be concluded that the practices related to breastfeeding in the present study were found to be faulty in the majority of mothers. This study emphasizes the need for breastfeeding intervention programs in community especially for the mother during antenatal and postnatal checkups. Customary Practices such as discarding the colostrum, prelacteal feeds etc. should be discouraged.
International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health, 2018
suitable nutrition to the baby, protects the baby against infections, allergies and asthma, promotes physical, physiological, motor-mental and psycho-social growth and development and gives protection against some adult diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, ischemic heart disease and some forms of malignancy. 2 In addition, breastfeeding also has benefits on the mother in various ways like reducing anemia and breast and ovarian ABSTRACT Background: Scientific research has clearly proved that breastfeeding provides the most suitable nutrition to the baby, protects against infections, allergies, promotes physical, physiological, motor-mental and psycho-social growth and development. Also it benefits the mother in various ways like reducing anemia and breast and ovarian cancers and helps in fertility control. The study was conducted to assess and compare the knowledge and practice regarding breastfeeding among mothers of infants in urban and rural area. Methods: This community based descriptive cross sectional study on 450 mothers of infant (0-12 completed months) residing in six wards of urban health centre and twenty three villages of block of rural health centre of Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal. Study was undertaken for the period of 1 year (November 2016 to October 2017). Study participants were interviewed by home visits using semi structured questionnaire. Results: Maximum mothers 40% in rural and 35.1% mothers in urban area age group 21-23 year. 39.1% mothers in rural area provided colostrums to their child compared to 50.6% in urban areas (p=0.0178). In rural area 60% mothers gave breast milk to their child on demand, 25% within 1-2 hours & 15.1% within 2-3 hours. In urban area 80% mothers gave breast milk on demand, 12.8% within 1-2 hours & rest within 2-3 hours. Conclusions: There was significant difference in breastfeeding practices in rural and urban area. Breastfeeding on demand was found to be more in urban area as compared to rural area.
Breast Feeding Practices in Infants of Rural Western Uttar Pradesh Region of India
International Journal of Medical and Dental Sciences, 2015
Background: Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child health and survival. But globally only less than 40% of infants under six months of age are exclusively breastfed. Adequate breastfeeding counselling and psychological support are essential for mothers and families to initiate and maintain optimal breastfeeding practices Objective: The study was done to know the prevalence of exclusively breast feeding, early initiation of breast feeding and practices of pre-lacteal feed in rural Uttar Pradesh and their relation with maternal age. Material and Methods: This observational analytic cross sectional study was conducted on 355 mothers of infants aged one and half to 12 months who came in OPD or Indoor of Department of Pediatrics UPRIMS and R, Saifai for immunization or some problem. A semi-structured, pre-tested Performa was used to interview the mothers. Results: Only 48.5 % of subjects were practising Exclusive breast feeding , inadequate milk secretion was major cause of non exclusive breast feeding Early initiation of breast feeding was done in 41.5% of mothers. Pre-lacteal feed was given in 46.8 % of responders. Relation of early initiation of feeding and use of pre-lacteal feed with age of mother was found significant. Conclusions: Despite of so many efforts by Government and NGOs, most of the mothers in Rural Uttar Pradesh are still unaware regarding healthy feeding practices. We need to improve our counselling and motivation regarding exclusive breast feeding.
Breastfeeding Practices in Women in Bihar-A Hospital based study
IOSR Journals , 2019
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