Knowledge, Attitude and Practices on Exclusive Breastfeeding in Lactating Mothers of Infants Aged 0-6 Months in Addu City

RESEARCH
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Table of Contents
TITLE..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRDOUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PROBLEM STATEMENT..............................................................................................................3
RESEARCH QUESTIONS.............................................................................................................4
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................4
Method and design.................................................................................................................4
Method....................................................................................................................................4
Sample....................................................................................................................................5
Data collection........................................................................................................................6
Data analysis...........................................................................................................................7
Ethical issue............................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

TITLE
“Knowledge, attitude and practices on exclusive breast feeding in lactating mothers of infants
aged 0-6 months in Addu City”
INTRDOUCTION
The concept of breast milk is generally a safe as well as nutritive diet for the healthy growth
as well as development of the infants. In this, the world health organization usually recommends
an exclusive breastfeeding for the very first months and can continue the breastfeeding for the
two years with the introduction of a complementary diet on the six months of age. The
prevalence of the exclusive breastfeeding is below the international recommendation in various
countries and across worldwide, where only 36% of the children are generally less than the six
months of age are exclusively breastfed. In this, breastfeeding can generally offer the short term
as well as the long-term well-being benefits both towards the mother as well as the infant. It can
specifically provide the economic benefits by decreasing the both direct as well as indirect costs
which is associated with the well-being care as well as infant feeding. In this, the non-exclusive
breastfeeding is generally linked with the low academic achievements as well as the enhanced
morbidity and the mortality due to the specific disease (Agustin and Fitria, 2018, p. 272).
The breast feeding is generally a standardized way of the feeding among all the infants. In
this, all of the essential nutrients required for the human infants are given in the breast milk. It
can improve both the developments such as the cognitive as well as the sensory. It is also the
very cost-effective way to decrease the morbidity as well as mortality of the infants from the
various illnesses such as the diarrhoeal, respiratory and the other infections. Later in the lives, the
concept of breast feeding generally continuing the benefits in terms of the reduced rates of the
obesity as well as the decreased risk of various chronic illnesses. In this, the breast feeding can
also offer the well-being advantages for the breast-feeding mother, consisting an earlier return to
the pre-pregnancy weights, the decreased risk of the breast cancer as well as ovarian cancer and
aid to space pregnancies. There is also the particular social, economic as well as the
environmental benefits, consisting the saving resources for the family and the country, decreased
the well-being care costs (The infant feeding practices of mothers in the Maldives, 2020).
An exclusive breastfeeding is specifically defined as the providing breast milk only to the
new born baby, without any of the additional drink or any other food, not even water in the very
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first six months of the born or life. An exclusive breastfeeding is specifically essential towards
the public well-being strategy for enhancing the health of the children’s as well as the mother’s
by decreasing the child morbidity as well as the mortality and aiding to control the well-being
care costs among the community. It is generally one of the major strategies that can aid the most
widely known as well as the effective interventions for preventing the early childhood deaths
(Asfaw, T., 2021, p. 40). In the aim of the research is to understand the knowledge, attitude and
practices on exclusive breast feeding in lactating mothers of infants aged 0-6 months in Addu
City. It is also analysing that the most of the infants are born in 2017 who started their
breastfeeding which is approx. 84.1 percent and only 58.3 percent of the infants which were in
the breastfeeding at 6 months, moreover, these all percentage which is based on the breastfed
infants which show the supplemented with formula which is show their best interest towards the
tow day before of age which was 19.2 percent among the infants which born in the 2017, an
enhance from the 16.9 percent infants are among who used to born in the 2016.
As per the view of Jean Prince Claude Dukuzumuremyi, the World Health Assembly
generally has set a global target in order to enhances the rate of the exclusive breast feeding for
the new born aged 0-6 months up to at least 50% in the coming years. Exclusive breastfeeding is
a necessary public well-being strategy for increasing the health of both the mother as well as the
children so as by decreasing the mortality and morbidity of the infant as well (Flores and et. al.,
2021, p. 5). the public well-being strategy can also aid to control the well-being care costs across
the community. In this, the positive attitude as well as the good knowledge of the mother can
generally play a key role in the process of the breast feeding. In this, the previous study generally
reported that the mothers with the greater knowledge about the exclusive breastfeeding were
approximately 6 times more likely to practice the exclusive breastfeed than their counterpart as
well as the elevated score of the knowledge of breastfeeding, the practice control, attitude were
all linked with the greater prevalence of the exclusive breastfeeding (Knowledge, attitude, and
practice of exclusive breastfeeding among mothers in East Africa: a systematic review, 2020).
As per the view of R Abdulraheem and CW Binns, the breastfeeding is specifically very
crucial to the both new born as well as the mother because of the medical, psychological,
economical, and social benefits. It is determined that any of the breastfeeding initiation as well as
the duration of the breast feeding are generally high. In this, the rates of the full breast feeding
before the very four months are also elevated. In this, the challenge to sustain these particular
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