Breast feeding practices in Onitsha South Eastern Nigeria – 2 years after Baby Friendly Initiative

Egbuonu, Ifeoma; Ezechukwu, CC; Chukwuka, John Onuora

doi:10.4314/tjmr.v8i2.30435

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“…Majority of the women in this study obtained their information about EBF from antenatal health talks. This is similar to findings from other Nigeria studies (20,35). However, despite these health talks which are usually delivered by midwives and nutritionists during every antenatal clinic session, their knowledge and practice of EBF was relatively poor.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…Several studies have demonstrated that maternal education is one of the strongest determinants of the practice of EBF because educated women are much more likely to practice EBF than those who are uneducated (26)(27)(28)(29). However, in contrast to other Nigerian studies were majority of the women had low level education (11,12,20,21,35) most of the women in our study were well educated.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…The tenth step to SBF request for the establishment of breastfeeding support groups in order to ensure EBF is supported and promoted beyond the walls of health facilities (35). The presence of established peer support groups have also been shown to improve EBF rates (12,35).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Knowledge and practice of exclusive breastfeeding among antenatal attendees in Uyo, Southern Nigeria

Abasiattai¹,

Etukumana²,

Nyong³

et al. 2014

Gaziantep Med J

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The aim was to assess the knowledge and practice of exclusive breastfeeding among women receiving antenatal care in the teaching hospital. Semi-structured questionnaires were administered to two hundred women in the antenatal clinic. Majority of the respondents (69.5%) were between 25-34 years of age, 57.0% were multiparous and 67.7% had attained tertiary level education. Eighty-four women (42.0%) were able to define exclusive breastfeeding correctly while just 7.0% of the respondents knew the ten steps to successful breastfeeding. Only 44.5% of the women practiced exclusive breastfeeding. None of the women belonged to a breastfeeding support group and the most common source of information on exclusive breastfeeding was the antenatal health talks (81.0%). The level of knowledge and practice of exclusive breastfeeding by women in our centre is poor. There is need for large scale health enlightenment of members of the public on exclusive breastfeeding. There is also the need for periodic retraining of relevant health workers on the practice of exclusive breastfeeding and strategies introduced for its regular monitoring and evaluation.

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Knowledge and practice of exclusive breastfeeding among antenatal attendees in Uyo, Southern Nigeria

Abasiattai¹,

Etukumana²,

Nyong³

et al. 2014

Gaziantep Med J

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“…Several studies reveal that only a minor percentage of women breastfeed exclusively (Egbuonu et al, 2004) as shown in this study where 30% chose to breastfeed exclusively.…”

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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seroprevalence and pregnancy outcome among obstetric population in Abakaliki, Southeast Nigeria

Perpetus¹

2012

J. Public Health Epidemiol.

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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection hasThirty percent of the babies were exclusively breastfed. Maternal mortality ratio was 3,300 per 100,000 births, while perinatal mortality was 67 per 1,000 for this group of patients. It is concluded that the seroprevalence rate is high with associated adverse maternal and perinatal outcome. Routine screening by the general populace is advocated, as most diagnoses were made during antenatal care. There is also need to educate our women on safe delivery and breastfeeding options.

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Using community volunteers to promote exclusive breastfeeding in Sokoto State, Nigeria

Qureshi¹,

Oche²,

Sadiq³

et al. 2011

Pan Afr Med Jrnl

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BackgroundExclusive Breastfeeding (EBF) refers to the practice of feeding breast milk only, (including expressed breast milk) to infants; and excluding water, other liquids, breast milk substitutes, and solid foods. Inadequately breastfed infants are likely to be undernourished and have childhood infections. EBF knowledge and infant feeding practices have not been studied sufficiently in Sokoto State, Nigeria. We describe the results of a randomized community trial to promote Exclusive Breastfeeding (EBF) in two local government areas Kware and Bodinga selected as intervention and control groups respectively.MethodsDuring advocacy meetings with community leaders, a Committee was formed. Members of the Committee were consulted for informed consent and selection of ten female volunteers who would educate mothers about breastfeeding during home visits. Participants comprised mothers of infants who were breastfeeding at the time of the study. A total of 179 mothers were recruited through systematic random sampling from each community. Volunteers conducted in-person interviews using a structured questionnaire and counseled mothers in the intervention group only.ResultsAt baseline, intervention and control groups differed significantly regarding maternal occupation (P=0.07), and age of the index child (P=0.07). 42% of infants in the intervention group were up to 6 months old and about 30% of them were exclusively breastfed. Intention to EBF was significantly associated with maternal age (P=0.01), education (P=0.00) and women who were exclusively breastfeeding (P=0.00). After counseling, all infants up to 6 months of age were exclusively breastfed. The proportion of mothers with intention to EBF increased significantly with maternal age (P=0.00), occupation (P=0.00) and women who were exclusively breastfeeding (P=0.01). Post-intervention surveys showed that source of information and late initiation of breastfeeding was not significantly associated with intention to EBF. Mothers who reported practicing EBF for 6 months, were older (P=0.00) multi-parous (P=0.05) and more educated (P=0.00) compared to those who did not practice EBF. Among them, significantly increased proportion of women agreed that EBF should be continued during the night (P=0.03), infant should be fed on demand (P=0.05), sick child could be given medication (P=0.02), EBF offered protection against childhood diarrhea (P=0.01), and helped mothers with birth spacing (P=0.00).ConclusionThis study shows that there is a need for reaching women with reliable information about infant nutrition in Sokoto State. The results show decreased EBF practice among working mothers, young women, mothers with poor education and fewer than five children. Counseling is a useful strategy for promoting the duration of EBF for six months and for developing support systems for nursing mothers. Working mothers may need additional resources in this setting to enable them to practice EBF.

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Breast feeding practices in Onitsha South Eastern Nigeria – 2 years after Baby Friendly Initiative

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Knowledge and practice of exclusive breastfeeding among antenatal attendees in Uyo, Southern Nigeria

Knowledge and practice of exclusive breastfeeding among antenatal attendees in Uyo, Southern Nigeria

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seroprevalence and pregnancy outcome among obstetric population in Abakaliki, Southeast Nigeria

Using community volunteers to promote exclusive breastfeeding in Sokoto State, Nigeria

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