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2023年8月15日 · Background Despite benefits of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) and its strategic place in the national guidelines for infant and young child feeding, its practice remains insufficient in Cote d’Ivoire. It is therefore important to identify its early stopping associated factors. We aimed to (i) assess the extent of children’s exposure to exclusive breastfeeding and the associated explanatory ...
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Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is recommended for the first six months of age by the World Health Organization. Mothers’ good knowledge and positive attitude play key roles in the process of exclusive breastfeeding practices. In this study, we report on a systematic review of the literature that aimed to examine the status of mothers knowledge, atti...
Exclusively breastfeeding among our sample is suboptimal, compared to the current WHO recommendations. Thus, it is important to provide antenatal and early postpartum education and periodical breastfeeding counseling, to improve maternal attitudes and knowledge toward breastfeeding practices. Keywords: Exclusive breastfeeding, Knowledge, Attitude, ...
The studies focused on health professionals and articles focused on mothers with their partners were excluded. Studies reported on breastfeeding alone, not exclusive breastfeeding were also excluded, and books, thesis, dis-sertation, case report conference, data unavailable stud-ies, and articles were not accessed.
All researchers independently screened titles and abstracts for eligibility. The full text was then revised to confirm an eligibility criteria match. Using a predesigned data extrac-tion form, all investigators independently extract the fol-lowing data from each study: (1) study characteristics, including the name of the primary author, publication...
The pooled total percentage of each variable of interest was generated from included studies. The numerator percentage was retrieved from each question and calcu-lated using the numbers of mothers who were the re-spondents divided by the total sample size of the studies from those questions were reported. The total percent-age was only generated fo...
This systematic review has several limitations, the first limitation of this study was only English articles were considered and there may be other studies published in other languages. Relevantly, almost all studies included in this review were cross-sectional in nature. As a result, the confounding variables might be affected by other confounding...
Exclusive breastfeeding among our sample is suboptimal, compared to the current WHO recommendations. In addition, there are relatively unfavorable levels of know-ledge and a less positive attitude of EBF as compared to the FAO guidelines, in fact, the observed EBF practices across all included studies were statistically found to be 55.9%, which is ...
EBF: Exclusive Breastfeeding; WHO: World Health Organization; UNICEF: United Nation Children’s Fund; WHA: World Health Assembly; KAP: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice; PRISMA: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and meta-analysis; EA: East Africa; FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization; KA: Knowledge Attitude; KP: Knowledge Practice
We would like to acknowledge the authors who conducted and published the original studies.
DCJP: Searched, analyzed, interpreted the data used in the manuscript, and was a major contributor in writing the manuscript. KA and JA: Searched, critically analyzed the manuscript for scientific logic and reasoning. JL: Reviewed the manuscript and approved the final version for submission.
All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article.
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2020年8月14日 · Conclusions. Exclusively breastfeeding among our sample is suboptimal, compared to the current WHO recommendations. Thus, it is important to provide antenatal and early postpartum education and periodical breastfeeding counseling, to improve maternal attitudes and knowledge toward breastfeeding practices. Background.
The journal addresses all of these aspects, including identifying women who are at increased risk of not breastfeeding; the impediments to breastfeeding and the health effects of not breastfeeding for infants and their mothers; interventions to increase breastfeeding initiation and duration; and the management of breastfeeding problems.
2023年7月19日 · Background. Breastfeeding is important for both mother and child in reducing risk of future cardiovascular disease. Therefore, it may be an effective method to improve cardio-metabolic health, particularly those who are exposed to pregnancy complications which increase later CVD risk for both mother and child.
2021年5月17日 · 22 Citations. Metrics. Abstract. Background. Breast milk is the best source of essential nutrients and bioactive components for infants under 6 months. However, little is known about what affects breastfeeding intentions and practices of Chinese mothers.
2020年2月24日 · “The sweet and the bitter”: mothers’ experiences of breastfeeding in the early postpartum period: a qualitative exploratory study in China | International Breastfeeding Journal | Full Text. Research. Open access. Published: 24 February 2020.
