Do Mothers from Urban Area Optimally Breastfeed Their Babies as Compared to Mothers in Village? - A Cross-Sectional Community Survey in Vadodara District
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 10
Abstract
Introduction: In India, despite nu-merous initiatives by government and private NGOs on breastfeeding, there has been poor improvement in rate of exclusive breastfeeding. Cur-rent study aimed to perform com-parative analysis of rural and urban community’s perspectives on exclu-sive breastfeeding in Vadodara city Methods: Hundred mother-newborn babies’ pairs (n=50 from village and n=50 from town)were selected for this cross-sectional sur-vey. Demographic information along with knowledge, attitude and practices’ details about exclusive breastfeeding was obtained. Differ-ences in approaches were assessed using chi square and t-test for cate-gorical and continuous variable re-spectively.P<0.05 was considered to be criteria to prove statistical signif-icance. Results: Almost half of the subjects (N=54) had incomplete knowledge about breastfeeding attachment and positioning. No significant differ-ences in EBF practices were found in both rural and urban mothers. None of the mothers practiced use of top feed, artificial nipple like means for feeding their infants. Conclusion: Rural and Urban mothers had no difference in breast-feeding approaches with poor knowledge about breastfeeding at-tachment and positioning. Thus it could be recommended to have in-clusive policy interventions for re-garding awareness and strategic implementation on breastfeeding.
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Manish M Kathad, Divyangkumar N Patel, Shiv Patel, Simoni Sarodia, Krupali Savaliya, Heli Shah, Kunal Shah
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