Assessment of mothers' knowledge about breastfeeding and the importance in the health of newborns
Session
Medicine and Nursing
Description
Promoting breastfeeding is a key strategy for a healthy growth of babies. The aim of this study is to raise moms’ awareness that breastfeeding is the most advanced and irreplaceable method to feed their babies.
Breastfeeding has been proven it is extremely important because it helps achieve the findings that in first year babies have weak heath.
Human milk, or breast-milk, is uniquely engineered for human infants, and is the biologically ‘natural’ way to feed infants. Despite this, infant formula has been actively promoted as a product equivalent to breast-milk.
Reason: The statistical data are research data made by the National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo (IKSHP). "Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices of primary health care workers and mothers for feeding babies and young children".
This research was conducted in primary health care (PHC), in Kosovo.
An interview based on a questionnaire, attitudes and practices on infant and child feeding was used for the research. The method of sample selection was mothers of childbearing age.
Out of 500 mothers interviewed, the most represented age group of births was the age group with 267 cases (53.4 %), followed by the 30-39 age group with 202 cases or (40.4 %).
According to the number of children, there were mostly mothers with 1 child in total 191 or (38.2 %), with two children 163 or (32.6 %) of the cases, with three children 104 or (20.8 %) and with more than three children there were 42 or (8.4 %).
The interviews were conducted in the first week of June 2013.
Results show well prenatal education of women about breastfeeding.
Keywords:
Breastfeeding, motherhood, newborns.
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-50-5
Location
UBT Kampus, Lipjan
Start Date
29-10-2022 12:00 AM
End Date
30-10-2022 12:00 AM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2022.172
Recommended Citation
Zuka, Drenushë and Cebeci, Ariana Zenuni, "Assessment of mothers' knowledge about breastfeeding and the importance in the health of newborns" (2022). UBT International Conference. 174.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2022/all-events/174
Assessment of mothers' knowledge about breastfeeding and the importance in the health of newborns
UBT Kampus, Lipjan
Promoting breastfeeding is a key strategy for a healthy growth of babies. The aim of this study is to raise moms’ awareness that breastfeeding is the most advanced and irreplaceable method to feed their babies.
Breastfeeding has been proven it is extremely important because it helps achieve the findings that in first year babies have weak heath.
Human milk, or breast-milk, is uniquely engineered for human infants, and is the biologically ‘natural’ way to feed infants. Despite this, infant formula has been actively promoted as a product equivalent to breast-milk.
Reason: The statistical data are research data made by the National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo (IKSHP). "Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices of primary health care workers and mothers for feeding babies and young children".
This research was conducted in primary health care (PHC), in Kosovo.
An interview based on a questionnaire, attitudes and practices on infant and child feeding was used for the research. The method of sample selection was mothers of childbearing age.
Out of 500 mothers interviewed, the most represented age group of births was the age group with 267 cases (53.4 %), followed by the 30-39 age group with 202 cases or (40.4 %).
According to the number of children, there were mostly mothers with 1 child in total 191 or (38.2 %), with two children 163 or (32.6 %) of the cases, with three children 104 or (20.8 %) and with more than three children there were 42 or (8.4 %).
The interviews were conducted in the first week of June 2013.
Results show well prenatal education of women about breastfeeding.