{"title":"Trends in Exclusive Breastfeeding Practices and\u0000Factors Affecting Mothers in Suburbs of Lahore","authors":"Shehla Usman","doi":"10.47489/p000s334z7311-5mc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47489/p000s334z7311-5mc","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Breast feeding has no match as a nutritional resource during the first six months for an infant,\u0000necessary for the health of both mother and infant. In past, Pakistan had worst breast feeding rates and despite\u0000efforts to promote breast feeding, situation is not satisfactory. Aims & Objectives: Our aim was to determine\u0000the frequency of mothers having exclusive breast feeding practices and finding various factors which may\u0000affect trends of exclusive breast feeding practices, in rural areas of Lahore. Place and duration of study:\u0000This study was done during May 2018 to October 2018 at Chaudhary Muhammad Akram Teaching Hospital.\u0000Material & Methods: In this cross sectional study, 254 mothers were interviewed directly and predesigned\u0000questionnaire was filled, through non probability consecutive sampling. Data was analyzed using SPSS 20.\u0000Post stratification chi square test was applied. Results: Only 34.3 percent mothers were found to practice\u0000exclusive breast feed till 6 months of infant age, 93 percent mothers were of age<35 years, mean age 26.6\u0000years and SD±4.9. Only 3.5% initiate breast feeding within an hour of birth. Chi square test revealed\u0000association between exclusive breast feed with insufficient breast milk, initiation time of breast feed and early\u0000cessation of breast feed (p<0.05). Conclusion: Declining rates of breast feeding creates an alarming situation\u0000and suggests to make more aggressive efforts for promotion of breast feeding the infants.\u0000Key words: breast feed, insufficient feed, prlecteal feed","PeriodicalId":20500,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex Lahore","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85710379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}