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Breastfeeding Knowledge and Practices among Mothers of Children under 2 Years of Age Living in a Military Barrack in Southwest Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Human milk is uniquely superior as a source of nutrition for infants, and breastfeeding has many benefits. This study determined the breastfeeding knowledge and practices of women who have children aged 0-2 years living in a Naval Barracks. METHODS: This descriptive cross sectional study...

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Autores principales: Akinyinka, Modupe Rebekah, Olatona, Foluke Adenike, Oluwole, Esther Oluwakemi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health and Education Projects, Inc 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5005982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27622007
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author Akinyinka, Modupe Rebekah
Olatona, Foluke Adenike
Oluwole, Esther Oluwakemi
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description BACKGROUND: Human milk is uniquely superior as a source of nutrition for infants, and breastfeeding has many benefits. This study determined the breastfeeding knowledge and practices of women who have children aged 0-2 years living in a Naval Barracks. METHODS: This descriptive cross sectional study was carried out among 220 women in a Naval Barracks selected using systematic random sampling method. Pre tested questionnaires were administered by trained interviewers, and data was analyzed using Epi info 2000 and Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 19. RESULTS: There was generally fair knowledge about breastfeeding among the women. Most of the respondents (97.3%) had ever breastfed their babies, 56.5% of them initiated breastfeeding within an hour of delivery, 24.1% admitted that they gave pre lacteal feeds, 74.1% practiced exclusive breastfeeding for a mean period of 4.98 months and 30.7% engaged in bottle-feeding. Several factors were significantly associated with breastfeeding practices. CONCLUSIONS: Breastfeeding practices varied among the respondents despite the fair knowledge. GLOBAL HEALTH IMPLICATIONS: This study reveals the need to educate women and communities worldwide particularly in low-income countries about good breastfeeding practices. Targeting these women will help to improve maternal and child health.
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spelling pubmed-50059822016-09-12 Breastfeeding Knowledge and Practices among Mothers of Children under 2 Years of Age Living in a Military Barrack in Southwest Nigeria Akinyinka, Modupe Rebekah Olatona, Foluke Adenike Oluwole, Esther Oluwakemi Int J MCH AIDS Original Article BACKGROUND: Human milk is uniquely superior as a source of nutrition for infants, and breastfeeding has many benefits. This study determined the breastfeeding knowledge and practices of women who have children aged 0-2 years living in a Naval Barracks. METHODS: This descriptive cross sectional study was carried out among 220 women in a Naval Barracks selected using systematic random sampling method. Pre tested questionnaires were administered by trained interviewers, and data was analyzed using Epi info 2000 and Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 19. RESULTS: There was generally fair knowledge about breastfeeding among the women. Most of the respondents (97.3%) had ever breastfed their babies, 56.5% of them initiated breastfeeding within an hour of delivery, 24.1% admitted that they gave pre lacteal feeds, 74.1% practiced exclusive breastfeeding for a mean period of 4.98 months and 30.7% engaged in bottle-feeding. Several factors were significantly associated with breastfeeding practices. CONCLUSIONS: Breastfeeding practices varied among the respondents despite the fair knowledge. GLOBAL HEALTH IMPLICATIONS: This study reveals the need to educate women and communities worldwide particularly in low-income countries about good breastfeeding practices. Targeting these women will help to improve maternal and child health. Global Health and Education Projects, Inc 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5005982/ /pubmed/27622007 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Akinyinka et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Akinyinka, Modupe Rebekah
Olatona, Foluke Adenike
Oluwole, Esther Oluwakemi
Breastfeeding Knowledge and Practices among Mothers of Children under 2 Years of Age Living in a Military Barrack in Southwest Nigeria
title Breastfeeding Knowledge and Practices among Mothers of Children under 2 Years of Age Living in a Military Barrack in Southwest Nigeria
title_full Breastfeeding Knowledge and Practices among Mothers of Children under 2 Years of Age Living in a Military Barrack in Southwest Nigeria
title_fullStr Breastfeeding Knowledge and Practices among Mothers of Children under 2 Years of Age Living in a Military Barrack in Southwest Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Breastfeeding Knowledge and Practices among Mothers of Children under 2 Years of Age Living in a Military Barrack in Southwest Nigeria
title_short Breastfeeding Knowledge and Practices among Mothers of Children under 2 Years of Age Living in a Military Barrack in Southwest Nigeria
title_sort breastfeeding knowledge and practices among mothers of children under 2 years of age living in a military barrack in southwest nigeria
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5005982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27622007
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