Knowledge and Practice on Breastfeeding among Mothers of Infant

Adhikari, Tulashi; Subedi, Ishwar

doi:10.3126/jfstn.v8i0.11754

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“…In present study, the practice of EBM feeding was low in 22 (12.3%) working mothers. Similar low practices have been reported from Nepal 8 (8.3%) 4 and Maharashtra India 3 17 (17.9%). This may be due to various practical factors restricting the practice of EBM feeding despite having its knowledge.…”

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Working mother’s awareness and practice regarding feeding of expressed breast milk

Lama

2019

J Patan Acad Health Sci

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Introductions: Expressed breast milk (EBM) is a healthy feeding option as compared to formula milk for working mothers. Awareness and practice towards EBM may be helpful towards its promotion. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted at Patan Hospital, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal. Working mothers with breastfeeding child of less than 2 year were interviewed for and practice regarding EBM. A self-constructed open and close ended questionnaire in Nepali was used for data collection to analyze the association of mother’s age, types of family structure and number of children with EBM. Results: Out of 178 working mothers, 121 (67.9%) had awareness about EBM and 22 had practiced it. Mother’s age, types of family structure and number of children were not statistically significant with level awareness. There was positive correlation between awareness and practice of EBM. Conclusions: This study demonstrated 2/3rd of working mothers had awareness of EBM and 1/10th practiced EBM feeding, and there was positive correlation of awareness and practice.

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“…3 A study in Nepal reports 12% of respondents had knowledge about expressing breast milk and among them only 8.3% practiced it. 4 This study aims to evaluate current awareness and practice of EBM among working mothers coming for immunization in outpatient department of a tertiary care university teaching hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal.…”

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Working mother’s awareness and practice regarding feeding of expressed breast milk

Lama

2019

J Patan Acad Health Sci

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“…However, as shown in Table 3, tensile strength and elongation at break of the bio-elastomers SB-ESO are much higher than the pure SB even the molecular weight of SB is 50,000 which is similar with a part of the SB-ESO and higher than the rest of the SB-ESO. Actually, these mechanics performance data of the bio-elastomers SB-ESO are accorded with the experimental results of the blend of linear SBS with Scheme 2 Structure of bio-based elastomers 60 wt.% SB diblock that have been reported [29]. Therefore, it also suggests that the tensile strength and elongation at break of SB-ESO are higher than that of the SB diblock copolymers.…”

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Formation of bio-based elastomer from styrene-butadiene copolymer and epoxidized soybean oil

Zhang

Boonkerd

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J Polym Res

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Styrene-butadiene copolymers and epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) were used to synthesize bio-elastomers. The reaction occurred via a living anionic polymerization using nbutyllithium as initiator and cyclohexane as solvent. The gel permeation chromatography (GPC), 1 HNMR and FTIR spectroscopy analysis of the microstructure of precursor styrenebutadiene copolymers and the final products suggests that the ester group in the triglyceride of ESO was broken and reacted with the living polymer chain to form the bio-elastomer. The effect of the molecular weight of styrene-butadiene copolymer and the molar ratio of precursor copolymer to ESO on the formation of bio-elastomer are studied. The bio-elastomer based on styrene-butadiene diblock copolymer (SB) reveal higher tensile strength and break elongation compared with the precursor copolymer, but the one based on styrenebutadiene triblock copolymer (SBS) shown the opposite result.

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“…The initiation of BF within 1 h of a child's birth (64.0 percent) was higher than a study in Southeast Nigeria where 56.0 percent of working mothers initiated BF within 1 h of a child's birth [18] and lower than that in developed country like USA where it is 73.0 percent [19]. A hospital-based survey in Kathmandu, Nepal, found the practice to be even less, that is 41.0 percent [20] but this seems unusual for hospital cases. Knowledge regarding exclusive BF in this study was inadequate (34 percent) but is consistent with the study in the rural population of North India where it is 39.0 percent [21].…”

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Assessing the level of knowledge and practice of breastfeeding among factory working mothers in Kathmandu, Nepal

Sharma

Khadka

2019

JHR

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to assess the level of knowledge and practice of breastfeeding among factory working mothers in Kathmandu who had a minimum of one child of less than two years of age. Design/methodology/approach -A cross-sectional survey, with the help of a semi-structured questionnaire, was completed. χ 2 or Fisher exact tests were applied for analysis using the SPSS program. Findings -In total, 36.0 percent of the mothers had adequate knowledge, and 40.0 percent had an appropriate practice of breastfeeding (BF). Also, 30 percent of them were supplementing their BF with additional milk and 54.0 percent began to give additional food at less than six months of age, mainly due to insufficient breast milk. However, 40.0 percent of mothers practiced exclusive BF; 34.0 percent of mothers continued BF until their child reached two years of age. BF was initiated within an hour by 64.0 percent of mothers. Regarding knowledge, the majority of them (82 percent) knew about initiation time of the feed, 64.0 percent of mothers knew that breast milk had positive effects on a child's health while 48.0 percent knew that it also had good effects on the mothers' health. There was a positive association between available facilities and BF knowledge levels ( p-value o0.00, χ 2 ¼ 4.25, df ¼ 1). The associations of knowledge levels against the education status of mothers ( p-value ¼ 0.11, χ 2 ¼ 2.59, df ¼ 1) and practice level of initiation of breast milk ( p-value ¼ 0.96, χ 2 ¼ 0.02, df ¼ 1) were not significant. Originality/value -The knowledge and practices of BF among factory working mothers are not satisfactory. Hence, an effective way to encourage BF is to increase the availability of facilities for the practice of BF at a mother's workplace.

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Knowledge and Practice on Breastfeeding among Mothers of Infant

Cited by 9 publications

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Working mother’s awareness and practice regarding feeding of expressed breast milk

Working mother’s awareness and practice regarding feeding of expressed breast milk

Formation of bio-based elastomer from styrene-butadiene copolymer and epoxidized soybean oil

Assessing the level of knowledge and practice of breastfeeding among factory working mothers in Kathmandu, Nepal

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