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Factors associated with breastfeeding practice among mothers in Jazan City, Saudi Arabia
Other Title(s)
العوامل المرتبطة بممارسة الرضاعة الطبيعية بين الأمهات في مدينة جازان بالمملكة العربية السعودية
Joint Authors
al-Zughbi, Najah Nasir
Mahmud, Sayyid Zafar
Sani, Mubarak
Source
Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Issue
Vol. 2, Issue 4 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.76-88, 13 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2018-12-31
Country of Publication
Palestine (Gaza Strip)
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Social Sciences (Multidisciplinary)
Public Health
Topics
Abstract EN
Objective : To evaluate breastfeeding practice as well as to identify the factors that influence mothers decision to practice exclusive breastfeeding.
Subjects and methods: This is a cross sectional study carried out from March 2017 to Jun 2018.
Questionnaires were administrated to mothers who attended well baby clinics in primary health centers in jazan city.
Results : The study included 400 women with age range from 17 to 49 years.
Their children age ranged between 1 and 36 months.
Most of the participants were Housewife (67.8%) and 47.8 % of them were certified with university degree.
Most of women had full term babies (92 %), delivered normally (76 %), gave mixed feeding for their babies (76 %), did not use the pacifier (81%) and initiated first fed within one hour after delivery 54% that was derived from the breast in 75 %.
The majority of the study group was healthy (90 %) and majority of their children were healthy (95.5 %).The most prevalent reasons for breast feeding (BF) were awareness about the importance of BF (50.4 %) and advice of a family and/or mother (33.8 %).
The most prevalent reasons for artificial milk feeding were awarded artificial milk before delivery (26.8%), advice from relatives (24.7 %), mother’ belief that artificial milk is good like breast milk (23.2 %), and artificial milk awarded from the hospital during delivery (11.9 %).The majority of mothers were satisfied with breast feeding (92 %).
Conclusion : Mixed feeding is a common practice among women in Jazan while exclusive breast feeding was practiced by a proportion consistent with the WHO target proportion less than six months.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Zughbi, Najah Nasir& Mahmud, Sayyid Zafar& Sani, Mubarak. 2018. Factors associated with breastfeeding practice among mothers in Jazan City, Saudi Arabia. Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences،Vol. 2, no. 4, pp.76-88.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Zughbi, Najah Nasir…[et al.]. Factors associated with breastfeeding practice among mothers in Jazan City, Saudi Arabia. Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Vol. 2, no. 4 (Dec. 2018), pp.76-88.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-898560
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Zughbi, Najah Nasir& Mahmud, Sayyid Zafar& Sani, Mubarak. Factors associated with breastfeeding practice among mothers in Jazan City, Saudi Arabia. Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences. 2018. Vol. 2, no. 4, pp.76-88.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-898560
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes appendices : p. 84-87
Record ID
BIM-898560