Muhammad Naeem, Malik Shahid Shaukat, Najam-ud Din, Muhammad Tauseef Javed, Muhammad Junaid Ahsan, Mehwish Ghazi.
Assessment Of Determinants Of Decrease In Tendency For Breast Feeding In Mothers Visiting Services Hospital Lahore.
Esculapio J Services Inst Med Sci Jan ;11(3):40-4.

Objective: Assesment of the determinants of decrease in tendency for breast feeding among mothers visiting Gynae and Peads OPD of Services Hospital Lahore. Material and Methods: This was a cross sectional, descriptive study, carried out at Services Hospital, Lahore. Study duration was 3 months from June 2014 to August 2014. Study population included all mothers before menopause in Gynae and Paeds OPD of Services Hospital Lahore. A predesigned structured questionnaire was used to collect data from mothers. Data was entered, cleaned and analyzed using SPSS version 16. Consent was obtained on the form before hand. Results: Breastfeeding practices were more in the mothers who had knowledge about benefits of breastfeeding. The percentage of women having knowledge of benefits had increased tendency to start breastfeed their child within 30 minutes of birth and to continue it for 2 years. Mothers who had breastfeeding as a family tradition were provided with more suitable environment which led to increased tendency for breast feeding. On contrary the mothers who were not provided with a suitable environment and did not have breastfeeding as family tradition had decreased tendency to breast feed their children. Mothers who were in good health condition had increased tendency to breastfed their children. Breast feeding practice in women who did not consider breastfeeding as old fashion and did not think breast feeding to affect their figure was more than the mothers who preferred top feeding as a fashion. The breastfeeding practice in women who had a good health status i.e. did not have systemic disease ,breast abnormality and felt healthy after breast feeding is more than the mothers who had poor health status. Conclusion: From the results it was concluded that lack of knowledge about benefits of breastfeeding, misconceptions about taboos regarding breastfeeding affecting figure and is an old fashioned practice, poor health status of mothers, increased work load on the part of mothers and lack of suitable environment to breastfeed led to decrease in tendency for breastfeeding.

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