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Factors associated with breastfeeding cessation in nursing mothers in a peer support programme in Eastern Lancashire

BACKGROUND: The UK has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates worldwide and in recent years the Government has made breastfeeding promotion one of its priorities. The UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative is likely to increase breastfeeding initiation but not duration. Other strategies which involve pro...

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Autores principales: Agboado, Gabriel, Michel, Elaine, Jackson, Elaine, Verma, Arpana
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2828426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20105284
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-10-3
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author Agboado, Gabriel
Michel, Elaine
Jackson, Elaine
Verma, Arpana
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Michel, Elaine
Jackson, Elaine
Verma, Arpana
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description BACKGROUND: The UK has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates worldwide and in recent years the Government has made breastfeeding promotion one of its priorities. The UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative is likely to increase breastfeeding initiation but not duration. Other strategies which involve provision of support for breastfeeding mothers in the early weeks after birth are therefore required to encourage UK mothers to breastfeed for the recommended duration. This paper examines the effects of maternal socio-demographic factors, maternal obstetric factors, and in-hospital infant feeding practices on breastfeeding cessation in a peer support setting. METHODS: Data on mothers from Blackburn with Darwen (BwD) and Hyndburn in Eastern Lancashire who gave birth at the Royal Blackburn Hospital and initiated breastfeeding while in hospital were linked to the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD). The data were analysed to describe infant feeding methods up to 6 months and the association between breastfeeding cessation, and maternal factors and in-hospital infant feeding practices. RESULTS: The mean breastfeeding duration was 21.6 weeks (95% CI 20.86 to 22.37 weeks) and the median duration was 27 weeks (95% CI 25.6 to 28.30 weeks). White mothers were 69% more likely to stop breastfeeding compared with non-White mothers (HR: 0.59; 95% CI, 0.52 to 0.67 [White mothers were the reference group]). Breastfeeding cessation was also independently associated with parity and infant feeding practices in hospital. There were no significant associations between breastfeeding cessation and marital status, mode of delivery, timing of breastfeeding initiation and socio-economic deprivation. CONCLUSION: In this study ethnicity, parity and in-hospital infant feeding practices remained independent predictors of breastfeeding cessation in this peer support setting. However other recognised predictors such as marital status, mode of delivery, timing of breastfeeding initiation and socio-economic deprivation were not found to be associated with breastfeeding cessation.
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spelling pubmed-28284262010-02-25 Factors associated with breastfeeding cessation in nursing mothers in a peer support programme in Eastern Lancashire Agboado, Gabriel Michel, Elaine Jackson, Elaine Verma, Arpana BMC Pediatr Research article BACKGROUND: The UK has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates worldwide and in recent years the Government has made breastfeeding promotion one of its priorities. The UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative is likely to increase breastfeeding initiation but not duration. Other strategies which involve provision of support for breastfeeding mothers in the early weeks after birth are therefore required to encourage UK mothers to breastfeed for the recommended duration. This paper examines the effects of maternal socio-demographic factors, maternal obstetric factors, and in-hospital infant feeding practices on breastfeeding cessation in a peer support setting. METHODS: Data on mothers from Blackburn with Darwen (BwD) and Hyndburn in Eastern Lancashire who gave birth at the Royal Blackburn Hospital and initiated breastfeeding while in hospital were linked to the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD). The data were analysed to describe infant feeding methods up to 6 months and the association between breastfeeding cessation, and maternal factors and in-hospital infant feeding practices. RESULTS: The mean breastfeeding duration was 21.6 weeks (95% CI 20.86 to 22.37 weeks) and the median duration was 27 weeks (95% CI 25.6 to 28.30 weeks). White mothers were 69% more likely to stop breastfeeding compared with non-White mothers (HR: 0.59; 95% CI, 0.52 to 0.67 [White mothers were the reference group]). Breastfeeding cessation was also independently associated with parity and infant feeding practices in hospital. There were no significant associations between breastfeeding cessation and marital status, mode of delivery, timing of breastfeeding initiation and socio-economic deprivation. CONCLUSION: In this study ethnicity, parity and in-hospital infant feeding practices remained independent predictors of breastfeeding cessation in this peer support setting. However other recognised predictors such as marital status, mode of delivery, timing of breastfeeding initiation and socio-economic deprivation were not found to be associated with breastfeeding cessation. BioMed Central 2010-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2828426/ /pubmed/20105284 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-10-3 Text en Copyright ©2010 Agboado et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Agboado, Gabriel
Michel, Elaine
Jackson, Elaine
Verma, Arpana
Factors associated with breastfeeding cessation in nursing mothers in a peer support programme in Eastern Lancashire
title Factors associated with breastfeeding cessation in nursing mothers in a peer support programme in Eastern Lancashire
title_full Factors associated with breastfeeding cessation in nursing mothers in a peer support programme in Eastern Lancashire
title_fullStr Factors associated with breastfeeding cessation in nursing mothers in a peer support programme in Eastern Lancashire
title_full_unstemmed Factors associated with breastfeeding cessation in nursing mothers in a peer support programme in Eastern Lancashire
title_short Factors associated with breastfeeding cessation in nursing mothers in a peer support programme in Eastern Lancashire
title_sort factors associated with breastfeeding cessation in nursing mothers in a peer support programme in eastern lancashire
topic Research article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2828426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20105284
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-10-3
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