Maternal work and exclusive breastfeeding practice: a community based cross-sectional study in Efutu Municipal, Ghana

Nkrumah, Jacqueline

doi:10.1186/s13006-017-0100-6

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“…This finding also contradicted a similar study with a similar methodology conducted by Atchiri and Dako (2017) that higher coverage of proper IYCF practice were associated with maternal age (Atchibri & Dako, 2017). A study conducted by Tan (2011) reported that younger age mothers tend not to exclusively breastfeed and this may be because they are more likely to engage in activities that make it difficult for them to breastfeed of which includes education and employment (Nkrumah, 2017) but this study shows no association of that sort. This could be as a result of different methodological approaches that has been used.…”

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Mothers Adherence to Global Infant and Young Child Feeding Strategies in Ketu North District, Volta Region - Ghana

Appiah

Dzata

Bonchel

et al. 2017

ESJ

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Background: Infant and young child nutrition has been engaging the attention of scientists and governments over the years. Their feeding practices comprise both breastfeeding as well as complementary feeding which have major role in determining the nutritional status of the child, therefore, there has been a well-established link between malnutrition and infant feeding. Children are the future of the world and yet the most vulnerable population, with some 6.6 million children dying before their fifth birthday globally. Studies have shown that poor breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices, coupled with high rates of morbidity from infectious diseases are the primary causes of malnutrition and death in the first two years of life. Ketu-North district noted that even though nutrition and health programmes were in place, breastfeeding coverage has been between 53% in 2013 and 69% in 2015. This study sought to assess mothers or caregivers adherence to Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices

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confidence: 56%

Mothers Adherence to Global Infant and Young Child Feeding Strategies in Ketu North District, Volta Region - Ghana

Appiah

Dzata

Bonchel

et al. 2017

ESJ

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“…Increased stress can impair lactogenesis and may lower oxytocin, thereby limiting milk letdown and output (Dewey, 2001;Stuebe, Grewen, & Meltzer-Brody, 2013). Further, food insecurity may compel mothers to seek employment outside the household or work for a greater proportion of the day, thereby disrupting normal feeding patterns and limiting the frequency and duration of feeding (Abou-ElWafa & El-Gilany, 2018;Nkrumah, 2016).…”

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Greater household food insecurity is associated with lower breast milk intake among infants in western Kenya

Miller

Young

Boateng

et al. 2019

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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Household food insecurity has been hypothesized to negatively impact breastfeeding practices and breast milk intake, but this relationship has not been rigorously assessed. To generate an evidence base for breastfeeding recommendations among food‐insecure mothers in settings where HIV is highly prevalent, we explored infant feeding practices among 119 mother–infant dyads in western Kenya at 6 and 24 weeks postpartum. We used the deuterium oxide dose‐to‐the‐mother technique to determine if breastfeeding was exclusive in the prior 2 weeks, and to quantify breast milk intake. Sociodemographic data were collected at baseline and household food insecurity was measured at each time point using the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale. Average breast milk intake significantly increased from 721.3 g/day at 6 weeks postpartum to 961.1 g/day at 24 weeks postpartum. Household food insecurity at 6 or 24 weeks postpartum was not associated with maternal recall of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) in the prior 24 hr or deuterium oxide‐measured EBF in the prior 2 weeks at a significance level of 0.2 in bivariate models. In a fixed‐effects model of quantity of breast milk intake across time, deuterium oxide‐measured EBF in the prior 2 weeks was associated with greater breast milk intake (126.1 ± 40.5 g/day) and every one‐point increase in food insecurity score was associated with a 5.6 (±2.2)‐g/day decrease in breast milk intake. Given the nutritional and physical health risks of suboptimal feeding, public health practitioners should screen for and integrate programs that reduce food insecurity in order to increase breast milk intake.

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“…These barriers will be discussed. Findings of many research studies stated that maternal employment and early return to work or school were factors associated with shorter duration of continue exclusive breastfeeding 6,4,12,11,5,8 .More mothers in the informal sector of employment exclusively breastfeeding their infants and breastfeeding more than eight times compared to mothers in formal sectors of employment, Family support, bed-shearing, flexible work schedule and cultural beliefs are key factors of exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding frequency 5 . Mothers who are returning to work or school need for encouraging and to establish policies that allow flexibility at work and appropriate places to breastfeeding or expressmilk 11 .…”

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“…In this section, discussion of the reviewed studies will focus on reported reliability and validity of the instrument. Reliability concerns a measure's accuracy and for the purpose of this review related measuring perceived socio-demographic characteristics and social support internal consistency, Cronbach's alpha and interclass confident ).Stability of instrument over period of time (testretest).Only one study included this review assessed internal consistency reliability of following scales; Likert scale and self-efficiency designed by Dennis (2003) is questionnaire a 33-item and is scored by a 5-point Likert scale from always confident 5 to not at all confident 1 . Scores range from 33-165, with 33-76 considered low self-efficacy, 77-120 average self-efficacy, and 121-165 regarded as high self-efficacy 3 .…”

Section: Reliabilitymentioning

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Systematic Review- Obstacles for Discontinuation of Breast-Feeding

Ahmed¹,

Ramaiah²,

Lindsay³

2019

IJTSRD

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Breastfeeding has benefits for mother and important determinant for infant normal growth and development. This study identified and recommends evidence-based practice intervention aimed at overcoming BF constrain to increase continuation among mothers and to identify the factors that help to develop successful breastfeeding promotion strategies. Aims: This review of article aims is to review existing literature to identify the main obstacles for breastfeeding among mothers to their infants. Method: A search of Pro Quest, MEDLINE, CINAHL, MEDLINEINDEX, Clinically KEY, EBSCO, and Google Scholar was conducted to retrieve studies from January 2010 to December 2017. Using inclusion criteria, we selected both qualitative and quantitative studies that described barriers to breastfeeding. Key words used were Breastfeeding mothers; exclusive breastfeeding; infant breastfeeding; maternal barriers of breastfeeding; challenges, obstacles or problems of breastfeeding. Results: Fifteen articles were included in this review six studies addressing maternal barriers for BF, five studies addressing obstacles for appropriate EBF duration and four studies addressing factors associated with early breastfeeding cessation. Result from the studies reviewed identified 30 constraints or barriers, which may lead to discontinue breastfeeding for infant. The literature is rich in documentation stating that continuation of BF is associated with many obstacles.

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Maternal work and exclusive breastfeeding practice: a community based cross-sectional study in Efutu Municipal, Ghana

Cited by 49 publications

References 16 publications

Mothers Adherence to Global Infant and Young Child Feeding Strategies in Ketu North District, Volta Region - Ghana

Mothers Adherence to Global Infant and Young Child Feeding Strategies in Ketu North District, Volta Region - Ghana

Greater household food insecurity is associated with lower breast milk intake among infants in western Kenya

Systematic Review- Obstacles for Discontinuation of Breast-Feeding

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