Bedasa, W/Michael (2014) Timely Initiation of Breastfeeding and its Determinant Factors among Mothers who have Less than 12 Months of Age Children in Tiyo Woreda, Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: Timely initiation of breastfeeding is a recommended practice by the World Health Organization which says” initiate breastfeeding within one hour of delivery, though it is not a usual practice in Ethiopia. Untimely initiation of breastfeeding has negative effect on child health, survival, growth and development. Furthermore, timely initiation of breastfeeding has many advantages for the mother and the child. Objective: To assess timely initiation of breastfeeding and its determinant factors among mothers who have child less than 12 months of age in Tiyo woreda, Arsi Zone, Oromia region Ethiopia. Methodology: A community based cross sectional study design was employed. Data was collected using interviewer administered pre-tested and structured questionnaire. A total of 386 respondents participated in the study. The data were cleaned, coded and entered into Epi-Data version 3.1 and then exported SPSS version 21windows for analyses. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify determinants of timely initiation of breast feeding and P value <0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Results: A total of 386 mothers were interviewed, with a response rate of 96.6%. The prevalence of timely initiation of breastfeeding of in the current study is 67.3%. Mothers with formal education were more likely to initiate breastfeeding timely (AOR=4.509, CI: 1.084, 18.762). Mothers who gave birth at home were less likely to start breastfeeding timely than mothers who delivered at health institution with (AOR= 0.131, 95% CI: 0.049, 0.352). Advice about timely initiation of breast feeding provided to mothers immediately after delivery was independently associated with timely initiation of breastfeeding(AOR=3.710,95%CI:1.451,9.481). Conclusions and Recommendations: The prevalence of timely initiation of breast feeding is below the target of millennium development goal IV. Formal education attended mother, mother with hospital admission immediately after delivery, place of delivery and advice for mothers on timely initiation of breastfeeding immediately after delivery were the independent predictors of timely imitation of breastfeeding. The woreda administration should give emphasis on increasing the formal education enrolment by women. More effort is expected from health extension workers and woreda health office to address the determinant of timely initiation of breastfeeding.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Vincent Mpoza |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2018 07:44 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2018 07:44 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/6540 |
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