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Determinants of Exclusive Breastfeeding and Introduction of Complementary foods in Rural Egyptian Communities

BACKGROUND: Determinants of breastfeeding (BF) exclusivity at a rural Egyptian setting are largely unknown. This cross-sectional study aimed to assess BF indicators, specifically exclusivity and the timely complementary feeding while assessing potential determinants that affect exclusivity of BF amo...

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Autores principales: Shafei, Arwa Mohamed Hosney El, Labib, John Rene
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4825392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24999140
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v6n4p236
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description BACKGROUND: Determinants of breastfeeding (BF) exclusivity at a rural Egyptian setting are largely unknown. This cross-sectional study aimed to assess BF indicators, specifically exclusivity and the timely complementary feeding while assessing potential determinants that affect exclusivity of BF among a sample of mothers inhabiting Egyptian rural communities. METHODS: A community based cross-sectional study was carried out over a period of four months with inclusion of 1000 eligible women having infants aged less than two years through a multi-stage random sampling method. Personal interview, using structured questionnaire, to collect information on socio-demographic characteristics, antenatal care services, women’s lactation practices, complementary feeding practices and knowledge about BF. RESULTS: All the included mothers had breastfed their infants, and 32.4% of them initiated BF within the first hour of life and 29.9% exclusively breastfed their infants for 6 months after birth. Complementary feeding was introduced for children aged 6-9 months in 63.6% of them. Bivariate analysis showed that factors favoring exclusive BF were age of the mother (<25 years), with secondary or higher education, number of children, with no history of complicated pregnancy or lactation problems, received health education about BF and having knowledge about BF. Logistic regression model showed that most influential significant predictor for exclusive BF was receiving of health education about BF and adequate knowledge of BF. CONCLUSIONS: Although all rural Egyptian mothers included, initiated BF, the rate of its exclusivity was low. Comprehensive education about BF during pregnancy is strongly needed to promote BF among them.
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spelling pubmed-48253922016-04-21 Determinants of Exclusive Breastfeeding and Introduction of Complementary foods in Rural Egyptian Communities Shafei, Arwa Mohamed Hosney El Labib, John Rene Glob J Health Sci Articles BACKGROUND: Determinants of breastfeeding (BF) exclusivity at a rural Egyptian setting are largely unknown. This cross-sectional study aimed to assess BF indicators, specifically exclusivity and the timely complementary feeding while assessing potential determinants that affect exclusivity of BF among a sample of mothers inhabiting Egyptian rural communities. METHODS: A community based cross-sectional study was carried out over a period of four months with inclusion of 1000 eligible women having infants aged less than two years through a multi-stage random sampling method. Personal interview, using structured questionnaire, to collect information on socio-demographic characteristics, antenatal care services, women’s lactation practices, complementary feeding practices and knowledge about BF. RESULTS: All the included mothers had breastfed their infants, and 32.4% of them initiated BF within the first hour of life and 29.9% exclusively breastfed their infants for 6 months after birth. Complementary feeding was introduced for children aged 6-9 months in 63.6% of them. Bivariate analysis showed that factors favoring exclusive BF were age of the mother (<25 years), with secondary or higher education, number of children, with no history of complicated pregnancy or lactation problems, received health education about BF and having knowledge about BF. Logistic regression model showed that most influential significant predictor for exclusive BF was receiving of health education about BF and adequate knowledge of BF. CONCLUSIONS: Although all rural Egyptian mothers included, initiated BF, the rate of its exclusivity was low. Comprehensive education about BF during pregnancy is strongly needed to promote BF among them. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2014-07 2014-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4825392/ /pubmed/24999140 http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v6n4p236 Text en Copyright: © Canadian Center of Science and Education http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Determinants of Exclusive Breastfeeding and Introduction of Complementary foods in Rural Egyptian Communities
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title_fullStr Determinants of Exclusive Breastfeeding and Introduction of Complementary foods in Rural Egyptian Communities
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of Exclusive Breastfeeding and Introduction of Complementary foods in Rural Egyptian Communities
title_short Determinants of Exclusive Breastfeeding and Introduction of Complementary foods in Rural Egyptian Communities
title_sort determinants of exclusive breastfeeding and introduction of complementary foods in rural egyptian communities
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4825392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24999140
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v6n4p236
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