scholarly journals Socio-demographic Factors Affecting Initiation and Duration of Breastfeeding in a Culturally Diverse Area of North Eastern Greece

Folia Medica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 566-571
Author(s):  
Eirini Tsanidou ◽  
Vasiliki Gougoula ◽  
Athanasios Tselebonis ◽  
Christos Kontogiorgis ◽  
Theodoros C. Constantinidis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Diverse Area ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors ◽  
Duration Of Breastfeeding

Background: Breastfeeding is not only important for the bond between the mother and the child but is also associated with many health benefits. Socio-demographic factors have been found to be important for the initiation and longer duration of breastfeeding.&nbsp; Aim: To record the breastfeeding characteristics and to explore possible associations with socio-cultural and demographic factors in a culturally diverse area in Greece. Materials and methods: A questionnaire including information about breastfeeding characteristics, medical history and demographics was completed by parents of children in the primary schools of the area. Results: The study included 700 school-age children (352 boys), mean age 9.4&plusmn;1.9 years. Breastfeeding was reported in 54.9% of them, with median (IQR) duration of 120 (range 60-360) days. Prevalence of breastfeeding was slightly higher in semi-urban areas, versus rural or urban settlements, but the duration there was significantly lower (p<0.001). Better educated mothers tended to initiate or sustain breastfeeding for a longer period; however, this difference was not statistically significant. Children of the native Muslim minority had been breastfed for a longer time (median duration 360 vs. 120 days, p<0.001), however, no difference was noted in prevalence. Conclusion: Prevalence of breastfeeding in Greece is approximately 55%, similar to previous reports and along with duration is determined by certain socio-cultural factors.

scholarly journals Socio-Demographic Factors Influencing the Use of Assistive Technology among Children with Disabilities in Malawi

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 3062
Author(s):  
Monica Jamali-Phiri ◽  
Ikenna D. Ebuenyi ◽  
Emma M. Smith ◽  
Juba Alyce Kafumba ◽  
Malcolm MacLachlan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Multiple Disabilities ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors

This paper aims to address the information gap on the influence of socio-demographic factors on access and utilization of Assistive Technology (AT) among children with disabilities in Malawi. Thus, it contributes towards the realization of the recommendations of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities and the development of a framework for creating an effective national AT policy. The paper used two statistically matched datasets, namely, the 2017 survey on Living conditions among persons with disabilities in Malawi and the 2015-16 Malawi Demographic and Health survey. Logistic regression and structural equation modeling techniques were utilized to assess the influence of socio-demographic factors on the use of AT among children with disabilities. The results indicate that there is a high level of unmet need for AT among young children aged 2 to 9 and those living in urban areas. The results further indicate that children with multiple disabilities have lower odds (OR = 0.924) of using AT for personal mobility compared to children with a single functional difficulty. These results entail that AT needs for children with multiple disabilities are not adequately addressed. Therefore, when developing policies on AT, younger children and those with multiple disabilities need to be specifically targeted.

Factors Associated with Distribution of Pre-Eclampsia and Eclampsia Among Rural and Urban Women in Child Bearing Age – A Case of Mbala General Hospital, Northern Province, Zambia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
Daniel Sinkala
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Pregnancy Outcomes ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Resource Limited ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors

Preeclampsia and eclampsia cases continue to rise in northern Zambia as people search for babies and continuity of clans’ survival. Due to the competitive nature of cultural demands/ myths on pregnancy and maternal socio-demographic factors (low-age, low socio-economic status, and poor health-seeking behaviour), women in rural prefer unprofessional primary health care services that are presumably affordable to them thereby, delaying in seeking for professional healthcare services. High levels of poverty in resource-limited areas have put many female adolescents at risk of falling pregnant. Thus, this study probed on the interaction between these maternal socio-demographic factors and disease distribution in both rural and urban areas with respect to various pregnancy outcomes. The study used retrospective quantitative methods in eliciting information from data sources (women, registers) in Mbala, Mpulungu, Senga, and Mungwi districts covering 3-year period (2017-2019). In all, 202 female respondents from Northern Zambia were interviewed through self-administered questionnaires. Thereafter, data were analysed using a statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS v16). Findings indicate severe; socio-economic status and low maternal age affect pre-eclampsia disease distribution coupled with adverse pregnancy outcomes more in rural than urban areas. The better the socio-demographic conditions, the lower the disease distribution with good pregnancy outcomes. However, worsening maternal socio-demographic conditions may increase the incidence of pre-eclampsia among pregnant women of northern Zambia. The study recommended interventions tarred towards public health programmes such as social behaviour change and communication (SBCC) towards adolescent women and socio-economic empowerment of pregnant women in resource-limited areas. Keywords: Average ANC timing, Preeclampsia, Residency, Socio-economic, Teenage pregnancy.

scholarly journals Socio-Demographic Factors Affecting the Prevalence of Enteric Fever: A Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1927-1931
Author(s):  
Mizanur Rahman ◽  
ASM Nawshad Uddin Ahmed ◽  
Jafar Iqbal ◽  
Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun ◽  
Nazia Hossain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Enteric Fever ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors

scholarly journals Utilization of antenatal services in urban slums of Jorhat municipality, Assam, India and the socio - demographic factors affecting it

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Syeda Jesmin Rahman ◽  
Anuradha Hazarika Medhi
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Urban Slums ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Mere Presence ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors ◽  
One Year ◽  
Antenatal Services ◽  
Slum Areas

Background: Antenatal service is an important strategy for improvement of maternal and child health, reduction of maternal mortality and neonatal death. But mere presence of this service is not enough. Utilization of the antenatal service is the most important aspect and there are many socio demographic factors that influence the women for its utilization. The objective of the study is to assess the utilization of antenatal services in the urban slums of Jorhat municipality, Assam and the socio - demographic factors affecting it.Methods: A community based cross-sectional study was done among women of the slum areas who had at least a child less than one year by using a pre structured and predesigned questionnaire.  Results: Adequate utilization of antenatal service was 19% while inadequate utilization was 66%. 74.2% of women had at least one dose of TT and 87.2 % consumed Iron and Folic Acid tablets for four months or more. Women who were high school and above had either adequate (13.2%) or inadequate utilization (81.1%) and only 5.7% of them did not have any antenatal service at all as compared to 37.5% among illiterates. Religion, caste, age of the women, parity did not have much role in its utilization. Among women from the joint families who did not have any antenatal service was only 4.8% as compared to 19.2% of women from nuclear families.  Conclusions: Majority of women had inadequate utilization of antenatal service in the slum areas and education played a very important role. Key words: Utilization, antenatal services, slum area.

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