An Investigation of Breastfeeding Practices of Mothers With Babies of 0-24 Months: The Sample of Tokat

Didem ÖNAY DERİN

Makale detayları

An Investigation of Breastfeeding Practices of Mothers With Babies of 0-24 Months: The Sample of Tokat

Yazarlar:

Didem ÖNAY DERİN

Yayıncı:

MediHealth Academy Yayıncılık

Ana Başlıklar:

Sağlık teşvikleri

Dergi:

Pediatric Practice and Research 2019 Vol.7 Issue Ek, pp.40-44

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000584600

Sıklık:

Üç Yıllık

pISSN:

2147-6470

Özet:

 

Feeding with breast milk is extremely necessary and important for sustain and protection of health, development of the newborn's. This descriptive study was planned and conducted to determine the practices of mothers with babies between 0-24 months in the field of application of breast milk, breastfeeding, and infant nutrition. The universe of the study consisted of mothers with babies between 0-24 months registered in Bağlar No. 1, Erenler No. 2, 75th year Education and No. 4-5-6 Central Health Centers located in Tokat city center. The sample of the study included 370 mothers who agreed to participate in the study. The research data was collected by face to face interview method with the questionnaire, developed by the researchers, between February 2014 and July 2014. The questionnaire consists of a “personal information form” covering the socio-demographic characteristics of mothers and their families, and a variety of questions prepared to determine the mothers' practices on breastfeeding and infant nutrition. In the evaluation of the data, the SPSS package program was used, and the necessary statistical analyses were performed.The average age of the mothers was 29.21±5.0 years, and 35.9% were in the 24-28 age group. The majority of mothers (94.1%) had a primary education degree, while close to half of their spouses (46.2%) had a bachelor's degree or higher. 73.8% of mothers are housewives. It is seen that 78.1% of the participants had a nuclear family and 21.9% had an extended family. The Breastfeeding rate of babies in the first half hour after birth was determined as 60.8%. In the study, it was found that the big majority of mothers (92.7%) gave their babies breast milk as the first food after birth. 87.3% of mothers stated that they started to complementary foods. It was determined that more than half (56.0%) of mothers (n = 323) who started complementary foods, started complementary foods after 6th months. Breast milk; although it is the essential nutrient for the growth and development of infants, it is seen that there are deficiencies of breast milk and complementary foods in our country. Although the rates of breastfeeding in our study were better than the general data of our country, mothers need information and support on, in the field such as starting and maintaining breastfeeding successfully, the time of first breastfeeding, feed with breast milk only, and timely start-up of complementary foods. For this purpose, support provided by educated persons increases the feeding time of the mother's baby with “breast milk only” and may be one of the most important practices in the proper feeding of babies.

Makale detayları

An Investigation of Breastfeeding Practices of Mothers With Babies of 0-24 Months: The Sample of Tokat

Yazarlar: Didem ÖNAY DERİN

Yayıncı: MediHealth Academy Yayıncılık

Ana Başlıklar: Sağlık teşvikleri

Dergi: Pediatric Practice and Research 2019 Vol.7 Issue Ek, pp.40-44

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2019

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000584600

Sıklık: Üç Yıllık

pISSN: 2147-6470

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Didem ÖNAY DERİN

Yayıncı:

MediHealth Academy Yayıncılık

Ana Başlıklar:

Sağlık teşvikleri

Dergi:

Pediatric Practice and Research 2019 Vol.7 Issue Ek, pp.40-44

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000584600

Sıklık:

Üç Yıllık

pISSN:

2147-6470