Infant Feeding Attitudes and Knowledge among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Women in Glasgow

Dungy, Claibourne I.; McInnes, Rhona J.; Tappin, David; Wallis, Anne; Oprescu, Florin

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“…This is might be due to increase awareness in breastfeeding among young mothers through social networks, media and introduction of benefits of breastfeeding in the academic curriculum. However, few studies reported older maternal age as the predictive factor of breastfeeding intention (Dungy et al, 2008;Forster, McLachlan, & Lumley, 2006;Mitra et al, 2004).The present study showed that higher education was associated with breastfeeding intention among the mothers. This finding is aligned with a study done in the United States (Colaizy, Saftlas, & Morriss, 2012).…”

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“…Both studies were done by McInnes et al and Humphreys et al reported that previous breastfeeding experience was one of the significant determinants of breastfeeding intention (Dungy, McInnes, Tappin, Wallis, & Oprescu, 2008;Humphreys, Thompson, & Miner, 1998).…”

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Predictors of Breastfeeding Intention in Malaysia

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Binns³

2017

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Breastfeeding is linked to a number of health related benefits among infants. Breastfeeding provides the ideal nutrition for infants, by promoting a higher IQ and protecting against childhood and adult diseases. Despite these health benefits, the rates of exclusive breastfeeding are still low in Malaysia. Intention to breastfeed is closely related to early initiation to breastfeed and could also be a predictor of longer duration of breastfeeding. The objectives of this study are to provide a descriptive analysis of the sociodemographic characteristics, breastfeeding intention and breastfeeding attitudes and determine predictors affecting breastfeeding intention among low-to-middle income women. A prospective cohort study was undertaken of mothers attending eight antenatal clinics run by the Ministry of Health in Selangor, Malaysia. Mothers were recruited during the antenatal period and followed up until six months postpartum to document breastfeeding outcomes. Among 652 mothers in our study, exclusive breastfeeding, mixed feeding, and exclusive formula feeding intentions were 49.6%, 46.3%, and 9.0%, respectively. Age, maternal employment, maternal education, parity, pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), breastfeeding attitude, spouse's preference, grandmother's preference and breastfeeding experience had significant relationship with breastfeeding intention (p< 0.05). However, further analysis showed that breastfeeding intention was associated with positive breastfeeding attitudes, older age, greater years of education, being housewives, having partner and family support for breastfeeding and grandmothers' breastfeeding experience. These findings suggest that by providing breastfeeding initiatives towards less educated, young mothers who lack breastfeeding support from their loved ones may improve breastfeeding rates. IntroductionBreastmilk is the most complete nutrition for infants (Gartner et al., 2005). Breastfeeding provides significant protective effect towards various childhood diseases to the infants in the short term and beyond (Binns, Lee, & Low, 2016;Horta & Victora, 2013). Infants who were not breastfeeding may expose to higher risks of infectious morbidity, as well as associated with increased risks of childhood obesity, leukemia, type I and II diabetes and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDs) (Stuebe, 2009). Breastfeeding intention is a significant predictor of positive breastfeeding outcomes, having an intention to breastfeed linked to early initiation and longer duration of breastfeeding (Donath & Amir, 2003;Mitra, Khoury, Hinton, & Carothers, 2004;Tarrant, Younger, Sheridan-Pereira, White, & Kearney, 2010a). Intention is an immediate precursor of behaviour and is defined as the perception of an individual towards performance of a particular behaviour (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980). In this study breastfeeding intention was defined as the degree of confidence about practising optimal breastfeeding behaviour. Intention to breastfeed is closely related to early initiation to breastfeed and could al...

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“…(20) On the contrary, women with negative attitudes towards breastfeeding are considered to be a main barrier to initiate and to continue breastfeeding. (21) Additionally, maternal positive attitudes towards breastfeeding are associated with continuing to breastfeed longer and have a greater possibility of success (20) . On the contrary, women with negative attitudes towards breastfeeding are considered to be a main barrier to initiate and to continue breastfeeding.…”

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“…On the contrary, women with negative attitudes towards breastfeeding are considered to be a main barrier to initiate and to continue breastfeeding. (21) Annually 800,000 deaths of under five children can be potentially prevented by optimal breastfeeding up to 2 years of age. Of these, if the children had been breastfed in first hour of life, up to 22.3% of neonatal death can be prevented.…”

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Review on Optimal duration of Exclusive Breastfeeding:Indian Perspectives

Venkatesh¹

2017

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The prevalence of exclusive six months duration breastfeeding is 46.4% and in India the early initiation of breast feeding is less than 41% which is far away from the desired level and interestingly is breastfeeding practice vary among different communities and regions. As a result of urbanization and maternal employment outside the home, in recent years there is decline in breastfeeding worldwide. Studies in India have also revealed that there is decline in breastfeeding trends

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Attitudes to Breastfeeding

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2010

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Infant Feeding Attitudes and Knowledge among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Women in Glasgow

Abstract: Knowledge and attitude predict breastfeeding initiation in this population. Social network members may influence mothers' feeding choices. This research is important because attitudes and knowledge derived from the IIFAS can be used to develop and evaluate breastfeeding promotion programs.

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Predictors of Breastfeeding Intention in Malaysia

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