Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding practice and associated factors among mothers having infants less than 6 months old, in Bahir Dar, Northwest, Ethiopia: a community based cross sectional study, 2017

BACKGROUND: Breast milk provides all the energy and nutrients that the infant needs for the first 6 months of life. Suboptimal breastfeeding especially lacks exclusive breastfeeding increase risk of severe acute malnutrition by 3.2-fold and major contributory factor for infant child mortality. There...

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Autores principales: Belachew, Amare, Tewabe, Tilahun, Asmare, Adino, Hirpo, Desta, Zeleke, Banchialem, Muche, Desalegn
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6206715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30373634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3877-5
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author Belachew, Amare
Tewabe, Tilahun
Asmare, Adino
Hirpo, Desta
Zeleke, Banchialem
Muche, Desalegn
author_facet Belachew, Amare
Tewabe, Tilahun
Asmare, Adino
Hirpo, Desta
Zeleke, Banchialem
Muche, Desalegn
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description BACKGROUND: Breast milk provides all the energy and nutrients that the infant needs for the first 6 months of life. Suboptimal breastfeeding especially lacks exclusive breastfeeding increase risk of severe acute malnutrition by 3.2-fold and major contributory factor for infant child mortality. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding practice and associated factors among mothers having infants less than 6 months old in Bahir Dar city, Northwest, Ethiopia, 2017. RESULT: The prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding practice 1 day before the survey was 86.4%. Mothers who; have young infant aged 0–1 month old [AOR = 5.702 (1.747, 18.613)], house wife [AOR = 2.995 (1.557, 5.690)] and are not influenced by culture [AOR = 11 (3.449, 35.165)] were more likely to practice exclusive breastfeeding than their counterparts.
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spelling pubmed-62067152018-10-31 Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding practice and associated factors among mothers having infants less than 6 months old, in Bahir Dar, Northwest, Ethiopia: a community based cross sectional study, 2017 Belachew, Amare Tewabe, Tilahun Asmare, Adino Hirpo, Desta Zeleke, Banchialem Muche, Desalegn BMC Res Notes Research Note BACKGROUND: Breast milk provides all the energy and nutrients that the infant needs for the first 6 months of life. Suboptimal breastfeeding especially lacks exclusive breastfeeding increase risk of severe acute malnutrition by 3.2-fold and major contributory factor for infant child mortality. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding practice and associated factors among mothers having infants less than 6 months old in Bahir Dar city, Northwest, Ethiopia, 2017. RESULT: The prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding practice 1 day before the survey was 86.4%. Mothers who; have young infant aged 0–1 month old [AOR = 5.702 (1.747, 18.613)], house wife [AOR = 2.995 (1.557, 5.690)] and are not influenced by culture [AOR = 11 (3.449, 35.165)] were more likely to practice exclusive breastfeeding than their counterparts. BioMed Central 2018-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6206715/ /pubmed/30373634 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3877-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Research Note
Belachew, Amare
Tewabe, Tilahun
Asmare, Adino
Hirpo, Desta
Zeleke, Banchialem
Muche, Desalegn
Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding practice and associated factors among mothers having infants less than 6 months old, in Bahir Dar, Northwest, Ethiopia: a community based cross sectional study, 2017
title Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding practice and associated factors among mothers having infants less than 6 months old, in Bahir Dar, Northwest, Ethiopia: a community based cross sectional study, 2017
title_full Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding practice and associated factors among mothers having infants less than 6 months old, in Bahir Dar, Northwest, Ethiopia: a community based cross sectional study, 2017
title_fullStr Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding practice and associated factors among mothers having infants less than 6 months old, in Bahir Dar, Northwest, Ethiopia: a community based cross sectional study, 2017
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding practice and associated factors among mothers having infants less than 6 months old, in Bahir Dar, Northwest, Ethiopia: a community based cross sectional study, 2017
title_short Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding practice and associated factors among mothers having infants less than 6 months old, in Bahir Dar, Northwest, Ethiopia: a community based cross sectional study, 2017
title_sort prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding practice and associated factors among mothers having infants less than 6 months old, in bahir dar, northwest, ethiopia: a community based cross sectional study, 2017
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6206715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30373634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3877-5
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