Breast Feeding Practices: Some Implications of Regional Variations

Background: Globally if the exclusive breast feeding is adopted there is up to 15% reduction in the mortality of under five children. At the same time proper “complementary feeding practices” leads to up to 10% more decrease in the mortality rates. The objective of this study was to study the infant and young child feeding practices among mothersMethods: This was an observational study, conducted at Aditya Hospital, Hyderabad in the period duration of 2012-2013. All children upto 24 months of life and their mothers were included in the study.Results: Most common reasons given by the mothers were pain in the stitches and discomfort and anesthesia effect due to lower segment caesarean section (LSCS) (70%). it was found that there was no significant correlation between education status of mother and time of initiation of breast feeding (P=0.6). it was found that there was no statistical significance between giving of pre-lacteals according to educational status of mothers. Almost 60% (n=64) of the mothers were appropriate in starting complementary foods at the age of 6 months. Conclusions: Women need to be educated separately with knowledge regarding of appropriate feeding practices so that both mothers and babies benefit from it; leading further to a healthy nation.

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Awareness about breast feeding practices and vitamin A deficiency among mothers in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, South India

International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health ◽

10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20211756 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (5) ◽

pp. 2346

Author(s):

Vasantha Rao Sappati ◽

Sannapaneni Krishnaiah ◽

Suneetha Sapur

Keyword(s):

Vitamin A ◽

Breast Feeding ◽

Andhra Pradesh ◽

Vitamin A Deficiency ◽

Sampling Strategy ◽

Signs And Symptoms ◽

Feeding Practices ◽

Population Based ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional

Background: To assess the awareness about breast feeding practices and to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice about the signs and symptoms of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) and vitamin A rich foods intake among mothers of children below 5 years in the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh (AP) in South India.Methods: A population based cross-sectional study was conducted on 284 mothers (age range 14 to 36 years) during June 2011 and September 2011. A combined simple and systematic random sampling strategy was used to select mothers from one tribal, rural and semi urban area with a representative sample of the Srikakulam district. A standardized structured questionnaire that was developed and validated by the National institute of nutrition, Hyderabad was utilized for this study.Results: The awareness of vitamin A and night blindness was 68.7% (95% confidence intervals (CI): 62.9–74.0) (n=195) and 93.7% (95% CI: 90.2–96.2) (n=266) respectively. The knowledge of signs and symptoms of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) was nil among illiterate mothers and low among literates; with primary education, adjusted odds ratio (OR): 0.01 (95% CI: 0.00, 0.06) and with secondary education, OR: 0.19 (95% CI: 0.06, 0.62) compared to mothers with graduation and above.Conclusions: There is a need to increase the awareness and knowledge about VAD among mothers with children below 5 years in the southern state of AP.

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PREVALENCE AND COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MALNOURISHED CHILD BELOW 5 YEARS OF RURAL AND URBAN AREAS OF BIHAR

International Journal of Medical and Biomedical Studies ◽

10.32553/ijmbs.v4i3.1264 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Rajiv Kumar Jha ◽

Sanjay Kumar

Keyword(s):

Nutritional Status ◽

Breast Feeding ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Rural Population ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Feeding Practices ◽

Bottle Feeding ◽

Age Group ◽

Rural And Urban Areas ◽

Rural And Urban

Status of nutrition reflects the status of health of a country. Infant and young child feeding practices are multidimensional and age specific. Inappropriate feeding practices and their consequences are major obstacles to sustainable socioeconomic development and poverty reduction. This study was a step to sort out various prevailing feeding practices and awareness status of the family of child in rural and urban areas of Bihar state among the age group of below 5 Years and their outcome. This study was a hospital based descriptive study carried out in PMCH (OPD and Indoor) Patna Bihar. Total number of participants in our study is 180 in the age group 0-5 years which was further divided into 3 groups according to their age each group (0-6, 6-24, and24-60months), had 60 participants. These groups were further equally divided on the basis of location rural and urban; these Subgroups were further divided into 2 equal subgroups according to sex. In this study variety of food given is 63% and 50% in urban and rural population respectively. It is revealed that population getting variety of food has significantly better outcome in nutritional status rather than population not getting it. This study has revealed that population getting nearly proper consistency and calories are only 53% and 41% in urban and rural areas respectively. Population getting nearly proper consistency and calories has significantly better outcome in nutritional status rather than population not getting it. Prevalent mode of feeding in children below 6 months in non exclusive BREAST feeding is bottle feeding in rural and urban areas. 42% and 50% of urban and rural population BOTTLE feed their children above 6 months respectively bottle feeding significantly affect the outcome i.e. the poor nutritional status as compared to the KATORI spoon feeding. Keywords: Healthy food, varieties of nutritional food intake, Breast feeding practices.

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Breast-Feeding and Complementary Feeding Practices in Egypt and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Journal of High Institute of Public Health ◽

10.21608/jhiph.2021.183220 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. 895-912

Author(s):

Khalid Al-Murshed ◽

Lamiaa Fiala ◽

Ensaf Abdel-Gawad ◽

Hoda Atwa

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Breast Feeding ◽

Complementary Feeding ◽

Feeding Practices ◽

Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia

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Feeding practices and knowledge regarding vaccination in mothers of under 5 children: a questionnaire based study in a metropolitan city hospital of India

International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health ◽

10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20205691 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 190

Author(s):

Sanghamitra Ray ◽

Rajesh Kumar Meena ◽

Hariom Kumar Solanki ◽

Prakash Chand Jain

Keyword(s):

Breast Feeding ◽

Feeding Practices ◽

Ground Level ◽

City Hospital ◽

Health Seeking ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Health Seeking Behavior ◽

Vaccine Preventable Diseases ◽

Seeking Behavior ◽

Source Of Information

Background: India has a high burden of under five mortality. Faulty feeding practices and mortality due to vaccine preventable diseases is a major hurdle. Objective was to assess breast feeding practices and vaccination status of children of less than 5 years by age and its correlation with socio-demographic profile.Methods: This was a cross- sectional descriptive study involving children of nine months to five years.Results: Health seeking behavior in terms of adequate antenatal checkup and institutional deliveries was quite high; but only one third of children had early initiation of breast feeding and the main reason was delay in rooming-in. Early breast feeding had significant correlation with the greater duration of breast feeding and the duration of exclusive breast feeding was significantly associated with the literacy status of mother. Only 34% of children were vaccinated on time and frequent migration was the cause of delay in 25%. Ground level workers were the main source of information regarding vaccination in this study population.Conclusions: Feeding practices were not satisfactory. Institutional fallacies also came into focus such as delayed rooming-in. Awareness regarding vaccination was inadequate and was incomplete in majority of children. General awareness and health seeking behavior of our community still need enhancement to a great extent.

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Breast feeding practices in a resettlement colony and it’s implications for promotional activities

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics ◽

10.1007/bf02726617 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. 239-242 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Sanjiv Kumar ◽

L. M. Nath ◽

V. P. Reddaiah

Keyword(s):

Breast Feeding ◽

Feeding Practices

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Infant-Feeding Practices Among Middle-Class Anglos and Hispanics

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.82.3.496 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 82 (3) ◽

pp. 496-503

Author(s):

Anne L. Wright ◽

Catharine Holberg ◽

Lynn M. Taussig ◽

Keyword(s):

Breast Feeding ◽

Maternal Employment ◽

Feeding Practices ◽

Single Women ◽

Bottle Feeding ◽

Solid Foods ◽

Healthy Infants ◽

Anglo American ◽

Education And Employment ◽

Almost All

Feeding practices have been analyzed prospectively in a sample of 1,112 healthy infants selected from families using an HMO. Data were collected at well-child visits during the first year of life regarding breast-feeding, formula feeding, and use of solid foods and cow's milk. Seventy percent of all infants were breast-fed, with the mean duration of breast-feeding being almost 7 months. Factors positively associated with breast-feeding included education and marriage, whereas maternal employment outside the home and ethnicity (being Hispanic rather than Anglo-American) were related to bottle feeding. Solid foods were introduced earlier by Hispanics and, also, among less well educated and single women; maternal employment was unrelated to the introduction of solid foods. Multiple regression analysis indicated different patterns for the two ethnic groups: education and employment were related to almost all feeding practices for Anglo-Americans, whereas education and employment predicted few feeding practices for the Hispanics. These findings suggest that the effects of ethnicity are independent of those of education.

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