scholarly journals Traditional practices followed by the mothers after delivery in a rural area of Tamil Nadu

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Sunitha K. ◽  
Vijayalakshmi M.
Keyword(s):  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Exclusive Breast Feeding ◽  
Adverse Health Outcomes

Background: India is culturally diverse and traditional practices differ from region to region. Even though the prevalence and degree may vary, traditional practices which have long term devastating effects are performed all over the world. Harmful traditional methods are always perpetrated against infants. Hence it is important to understand the local practices to comprehend fully the determinants of adverse health outcomes of infants. This study was planned to assess the prevalence of harmful traditional practices adopted by the mothers of infants in Tirunelveli and to assess the association of various socio demographic factors influencing these practices among the mothers. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among 100 mothers of infants in the subcentre of Patthamadai Primary Health Centre, Tirunelveli. Mothers with infants of less than one-year-old were selected randomly from the Family register and after obtaining their consent were interviewed at their door steps with a pretested semi- structured questionnaire. Data collected were analysed using SPSS software. Results: Among 100 mothers who were interviewed, 36 of them had given pre lacteal feeds, 24 of them did not practice exclusive breast feeding, 44 had used feeding bottles, 10 had reported some application on umbilical cord stump, 16 of them took native treatment for diarrhoea, 12 of them had instilled oil in eyes and 60% of them had practices of blowing of air into ear and nose. Conclusions: Almost all the mothers have practiced at least one harmful traditional practice following delivery of their child and these practices were mostly under the influence of the grandparents. The most commonly adopted harmful practices were administration of pre lacteal feeds and not practicing exclusive breast feeding which are contributing factors in increasing the Infant mortality. 

scholarly journals Child rearing practices in a rural community in Manipur: a cross-sectional study

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 3246
Author(s):  
Haobam Danny Singh ◽  
Avinash Keisam ◽  
Bishwalata Rajkumari
Keyword(s):  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Rural Setting ◽  
P Value ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Exclusive Breast Feeding

Background: The child rearing practices differ in communities, depending on their social customs, traditional beliefs and prejudices. Understanding these practices is important for the successful delivery of health messages and services. The present study was conducted in a rural setting to determine the child rearing practices as well as to determine its association with relevant socio-demographic factors.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 369 mothers residing in Kshetrigao area under Kshetrigao Urban Health Centre, Porompat, Imphal East. A pre-tested interview schedule developed by the investigator was used for data collection. Descriptive statistics like mean, percentage and proportion as well as chi-square and t-test were used for data analysis.Results: Majority (79%) of the mothers breast-fed their newborn within 6 hours after birth. Almost half (46%) of the mothers gave pre-lacteal feeds to their newborn. Majority of the mothers (57%) did not practice exclusive breastfeeding. About 90% of the children were completely immunized for age. Mothers who got married before the age of 20 years, being Muslim and who had caesarean section were significantly less likely to practice exclusive breast feeding (p value of 0.025, 0.012 and 0.000 respectively). Children whose mother belongs to Muslim religion, lower educational status, lower family income and who delivered at home were significantly less likely to be completely immunized (p value of 0.001, 0.003, 0.014 and 0.003 respectively).Conclusions: Giving pre-lacteal feed and not practicing exclusive breast-feeding were very common among the studied population.  

scholarly journals Dietary preferences and traditional practices according to the desired gender of the baby among pregnant women in South Eastern Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1091
Author(s):  
Semra Akkoz Cevik ◽  
Emine Karacan ◽  
Aysegul Kılıçlı
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Dietary Preferences ◽  
Before And After

Background: Superstition and traditional practices regarding pregnancy exist in various cultures around the world and are passed down from generation to generation. As a result of the literature review, it was observed that there weren't prospective and cross-sectional studies involving traditional practices and dietary preferences of pregnant women before and after determining the gender according to the gender of the baby they want. The purpose of this study was to determine dietary preferences, superstitions and traditional practices before and after determining the gender of the baby according to the desired gender of the baby among pregnant women.Methods: The research was a descriptive cross-sectional study and adopted the pretest-posttest research design. As the data collection tool, both investigators-designed questionnaire forms and the non-functional beliefs and practices scale (NFBPS) related to pregnancy to the same pregnant women were applied before and after the determination of baby gender in the first and second trimesters respectively.Results: The study found that 85% of the pregnant women thought that dietary preferences during pregnancy have an impact on the gender of the true baby. The results showed that superstitions and traditional practices were known and practiced by pregnant women at a young age, uneducated, living in the province and having a large family type (p<0.05).Conclusions: Health professionals, should pay attention to less educated, younger pregnant women to reinforce positive cultural health practices, discourage to them from using harmful ones superstition and traditional practice by providing non-critical scientific explanations. 

scholarly journals Study on knowledge and practice of nursing mother regarding exclusive breast feeding irrespective of socio-demographic characteristics

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (Number 1) ◽  
pp. 14-17
Author(s):  
Nadia Begum ◽  
Monowar Ahmad Tarafdar ◽  
Saizuddin Kabir ◽  
Shila Rani Das ◽  
Sultana Begum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Milk ◽  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Nursing Mother ◽  
Exclusive Breast Feeding ◽  
Knowledge And Practice

This descriptive type of cross- sectional study was conducted in Dhamrai, Dhaka among nursing mother with a sample size 120 using semi-structured questionnaire to determine the knowledge and practice regarding exclusive breast feeding irrespective of socio-demographic characteristics from January 2018 to February 2018 employing purposive sampling method. The percentage of mother-infant pair were highest within 20-30 years (65%) of age group. About 13.33% of mothers were illiterate, 33.33% had primary level and only 2.50% completed graduation; more than half (56.67%) of the mothers were housewives. It was revealed that 55.83% of the respondents had knowledge of exclusive breast feeding, however 42.50% of them gave only breast milk up to 6 months. The initiation of breast feeding within 1 hour was 47.50%, 32.50% within 1-2 hours. 8.83% after 2 hours, 9.16% of the respondents did not remember about the exact time and 2.50% did not breast fed their babies, the reason of not feeding breast milk was insufficient milk secretion. Premature complementary feeding was associated with an increased occurrence of vomiting (47.50%), diarrhea (59.16%), dyspnea (19.16%) but 55% of the respondents did not mentioned specific condition. One of the ten steps to successful breastfeeding is initiating breastfeeding within the first hour of delivery, the major barrier to achieving the recommendations of the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding.

scholarly journals Complementary Feeding Practices of Nepali mothers for 6 months to 24 months children.

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (191) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ram Hari Chapagain
Keyword(s):  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Complementary Feeding ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Child Feeding ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Exclusive Breast Feeding ◽  
Young Child Feeding

Introduction: Lack of knowledge and proper feeding practices contribute to higher childhood morbidity and mortality. The aim of the study wasto evaluate the mother’s knowledge and practices in terms of quantity, quality and timing of complementary feeding in infant and young child.Methods: A hospital based cross-sectional study was conducted between June, 2010 to October, 2011, at Kanti Children's Hospital, Nepal, involving 1100 mothers of children from 6 to 24 months of age who attended outpatient department of this hospital, applying systematic sampling technique using semi-structured questionnaire.Results: Eighty-seven percent of mothers had knowledge about the duration of exclusive breast feeding but only 33.0% practiced it and 21.0% breast fed their children up to 3 months. Eighty-seven percent of mothers knew when to start complementary feeding and 53.27% of mothers used the marketed weaning food. lito alone was offered by 28.27% as complementary food. Though 36.6% had proper knowledge of frequency of complementary feeding, only 33.27% were actually practicing it and 9.9% were offering more frequent thanrecommended. About half of the mothers fed their child with the food of appropriate consistency and 66.0% fed with the appropriate amount. But only 15.82% mothers fed their children with ideal frequency, sufficient amount and ideal quality.Conclusions: There was a knowledge and practice gap of duration of exclusive breast feeding and initiation and continuation of ideal complementary feeding. Rate of exclusive breast feeding was on declining trend._______________________________________________________________________________________Keywords: complementary feeding; exclusive breast feeding; infant and young child feeding; ideal feeding._______________________________________________________________________________________

scholarly journals Effect of exclusive breast-feeding on the linear growth of children aged 24-36 months in Bandung's urban slum area

2008 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Nenden Ismawaty ◽  
Julistio Djais ◽  
Herry Garna
Keyword(s):  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Linear Growth ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Urban Slum ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Exclusive Breast Feeding ◽  
Growth Status ◽  
Breastfed Infants ◽  
Positive Effect

Background Breast milk is an ideal nutrition source for infantsbecause of its balanced composition, naturally adjusted toinfants' need for growth and without any expenses. However,low education mothers living in slum areas are ignorant towardsinformations about the importance of exclusive breast-feeding.Objective To observe the effects of exclusive breast-feeding onlinear growth of children aged 24-36 months in urban slumsarea.Methods A cross-sectional study was carried out on 343children consisted of 188 exclusively breastfed infants and 155nonexclusively breastfed infants in Puskesmas Cigondewaharea on August to September 2007. Anthropometricmeasurements were performed to obtain linear growth status.Data were analyzed by using odd ratio (OR). The first step wasperformed univariately to assess the effect of data variables.Henceforth, factors which significantly influence the growthwill be assesed by multivariate calculation.Results Normal linear growth status was found in 109 (66.1%)exclusively breastfed compared with 56 (33.9%) nonexclusivelybreastfed children. Univariate analyzes showed that factorsthat influenced children normal linear growth were exclusivebreast-feeding (OR: 2.44; 95%CI: 1.58;3.78), industrial productporridge as complementary food (OR: 1.65; 95%CI: 1.00;2.72),and frequency of illnesses <6x/year (OR: 1.57; 95%CI: 1.02;2.42).The result of multinomial logistic regression analyzes showed thatexclusive breast-feeding became the only factor that influencechildren linear growth (OR: 2.254; 95%CI: 1.438;3.533).Conclusion Exclusive breast-feeding has significant positive effect onlinear growth of children.

scholarly journals A study on the prevalence of dental caries among the school-going children in Tamil Nadu

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 3582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gomathy Parasuraman ◽  
Y. Gowtham Krishna ◽  
M. Kaviya ◽  
Nischal A. Jain ◽  
Prashanth Rajendran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Dental Caries ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Cross Sectional

Background: Dental caries is an important social problem in India and is predominantly a disease of childhood. The prevalence and incidence of dental caries is influenced by various socio–demographic factors like age, sex, ethnic groups, dietary patterns and oral hygiene habits. The objective of the study were to estimate the prevalence of dental caries among the school going children aged between 5–10 years and to determine the risk factors associated with dental caries.Methods: A population based cross–sectional study was conducted among the primary school going children in Thirumazhisai from February 2016 to July 2016. Simple random sampling technique was employed and 357 children were identified for the study. Descriptive statistics was calculated for background variables and association between the risk factors and evidence of dental caries was analyzed by tests of proportions and chi square test was used as a statistical test of significance. Results: The overall prevalence of dental caries was found to be 63.9%. Higher prevalence of dental caries was found among the girls (54%), among the lower socioeconomic class (41.7%), among those who consumed mixed diet (74.8%), among those who consumed junk foods (62.6%) at least once every day and among those who consumed dairy products (58.9%) at least once every day. Dental caries was found to be low in prevalence among those who consumed fruits several times a week (6.1%), among those who brushed their teeth twice/more than twice a day (20.2%) and among those who washed their mouth after each meal (38.7%). Conclusions: Lack of awareness, improper dietary habits and poor oral hygienic practices are seemingly the contributing factors for the development of dental caries. Dental caries is a preventable disease which can be alleviated by creating community awareness through health education activities. 

scholarly journals A study of knowledge and practice of breast feeding in urban slum area under urban health centre in Solapur city, Western Maharashtra

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 4692
Author(s):  
Rupali R. Rajput ◽  
Santosh J. Haralkar ◽  
Suresh K. Mangulikar
Keyword(s):  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Urban Health ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Urban Slum ◽  
Prelacteal Feeding ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Normal Delivery ◽  
Training Centre ◽  
Exclusive Breast Feeding ◽  
Feeding Profile

Background: Country wide data from National Family Health Survey-III (2005-2006) documented that only 24.5% mothers initiated breastfeeding within desired one hour after the birth and almost 45 percent did not start breastfeeding within one day of birth. As many as 57% women practiced prelacteal feeding, proportion of exclusively breastfed infants at 6 months of age was 46.4%. Methods: The proposed study included cross sectional study of socio-demographic features and breast feeding profile of mothers attending Urban Health Training Centre. 400 mothers of infants aged 6-12 months were interviewed using pretested semi-structured questionnaire. Details about the socio-demographic characteristics and breast feeding practices and knowledge about breast feeding were obtained. Then results were analyzed at the end of data collection. Results: In the present study, out of 400 mothers, 41.25% mothers practice exclusive breast feeding. The knowledge of mothers about the breast feeding, among this knowledge regarding time of initiation of breast feeding after normal delivery and caesarean section was maximum i.e. 93.25%, followed by 57.25% mothers having knowledge regarding duration of exclusive breast feeding. The mothers having minimum knowledge was regarding continuation of breast feeding i.e. 40.25%. Conclusions: This study throws light on the mothers knowledge about breast feeding and what they actually practice. Breastfeeding practices like exclusive breast feeding, prelacteal feeding was less than the national average. 

scholarly journals The burden and underlying determinants of under nutrition among under five year children in Gurage Zone

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
Andamlak Dendir Egata ◽  
Abdusemd Worku Nida
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Study Participant ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Exclusive Breast Feeding ◽  
Under Five ◽  
Logistic Regressions

Background: Malnutrition is one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality in children under the age of five year. However, in Gurage zone information about the prevalence and associated factors of malnutrition still limited. Aims and Objectives: The major objective of this study was assessing the burden and determinants of malnutrition among under five children. Materials and Methods: A community based cross-sectional study design was applied from December 25, 2016 to April 25, 2017. A total of 1040 eligible mothers were interviewed using structured interviewer administered questionnaires by trained data collectors working in pediatrics ward. Through systematic sampling technique study participant were included in the study. To test the existence of statistical relationship between independent and dependent variables multiple logistic regressions analysis was used. Results: The prevalence of malnutrition among study children was 38.8%. Logistic regressions analysis result indicated that Unimproved sanitation [AOR 1.58 (95% CI 1.13-2.2)], food insecurity [AOR 2.06 (CI 3.49-3.33)], maternal disempowerment [AOR 4.1(CI 2.69-6.24)], inadequate frequency of exclusive breast feeding [AOR 1.9 (95% CI 1.176-3.357]. showed a significant association with malnutrition. Conclusion: The prevalence of malnutrition among under five year children living in Gurage zone was 38.8%. It was associated with utilization of unimproved sanitation, maternal disempowerment, food insecurity. Hence to abort the problem, it is better to enhance house hold food security, exclusive breast feeding, maternal empowerment and utilization of improved sanitation.

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