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- Title
Breastfeeding knowledge, attitudes and practice among rural women in Bangladesh: insights from Tungipara village.
- Authors
HOWLADER, HASAN; RAHMAN, ASHFIKUR; HASAN, MAHAMUDUL
- Abstract
Background. Breastfeeding is the natural way of feeding an infant with mother’s milk by direct nipple contact with the baby’s mouth in order to provide nutritional, metabolic and physiological needs, as well as to protect the baby from morbidity and mortality. However, inadequate knowledge and negative attitudes lowers the prevalence rate of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) among rural mothers. Objectives. To assess the level of knowledge, attitudes and practice of breastfeeding among rural women and to determine the factors that affect this practice. Material and methods. This study was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted on 130 conveniently selected mothers aged 18–35 years having at least one child (aged 1 week to 6 years). Simple descriptive statistics were used to identify the general characteristics of the participants, where univariate logistic regression was used to determine the factors considering p-values less than < 0.01 and < 0.05. Results. Most of the women had a positive attitude towards breastfeeding, where 68.46% of mothers had properly given breast milk to their children up until 6 months, while 91.6% fed them colostrum; respectively, 78.5% and 73.1% of mothers washed their hands and cleaned their baby’s mouth before and after the child’s mouth contact with the breast. The mother’s age and education (OR = 0.428 [CI = 0.176–1.039] p < 0.001), (OR = 1.627 [CI = 0.870–3.046] p < 0.001), the father’s education and occupation (OR = 0.987 [CI = 0.828–1.177] p < 0.001), (OR = 0.906 [CI = 0.574–1.429] p < 0.005) and dwellings structure (OR = 2.555 [CI =0.722–9.042] p < 0.001) are associated with the practice of breastfeeding. Conclusions. Breastfeeding and EBF should be promoted through primary care and counseling programs together with programs designed to uplift the socio-economic status of rural women.
- Subjects
BANGLADESH; BASAL metabolism; BASIC needs; BREASTFEEDING; COLOSTRUM; CONFIDENCE intervals; FAMILY medicine; HEALTH education; INFANTS; RESEARCH methodology; PSYCHOLOGY of mothers; NUTRITIONAL requirements; PARENTS; RURAL population; STATISTICAL sampling; STATISTICS; WOMEN'S health; LOGISTIC regression analysis; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; DISEASE prevalence; CROSS-sectional method; HEALTH literacy; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio
- Publication
Family Medicine & Primary Care Review, 2020, Vol 22, Issue 4, p23
- ISSN
1734-3402
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5114/fmpcr.2020.100432