Socio-Demographic Characteristics Influence on Birth Order and Exclusive Breast feeding Practices Among Multiparous Mothers Attending Adeoyo Maternity Hospital, Yemetu, Ibadan, Oyo State
Abstract
Adequate nutrition at early childhood is essential to ensure the healthy growth and development of children, Breastfeeding offers health benefits to mother and child when exclusively breastfed. Children aged less than 5 years are dying due to inadequate exclusive breastfeeding practices. This study aimed to determine the influence of socio-demographic characteristics among multiparous mothers on birth order and exclusive breastfeeding practices. Four null hypotheses were tested for the study.
The research design used was a cross-sectional design. A sample size of 288 mothers with two or more children attending Adeoyo Maternity Hospital, Yemetu were selected using a systematic random sampling and a structured questionnaire was used to collect data on sociodemographic characteristics, birth history, knowledge, and practice of breastfeeding. The Chi-square test was used for bivariate analyses to test the significance of the association between categorical variables and the practice of exclusive breastfeeding, it was found that religion, age of the children, and parity are factors that influence the exclusive breastfeeding practices. Logistic regression analysis was performed to identify independent predictors of exclusive breastfeeding. The level of significance was at 5%.
The mean age of mothers was 30.4 years (SD 4.4 years) while the mean age of the children was 56.0 months (SD 41.1 months). Exclusive breastfeeding was higher among the second and third children compared to the first, fourth, and fifth children. However, on logistic regression, the differences were not significant. Mothers with three children were about three times more likely to have exclusively breastfed their children compared to mothers with four/five children (OR=2.168. 95%CI= 1.307-3.596). Mothers from another ethnic group different from Yoruba were significantly less likely to breastfeed exclusively than those who were Yoruba (OR=0.515, 95% CI=0.254-1.046).
Based on the results findings, the study recommended that educational practices should be strengthened among mothers, especially on the benefit of exclusive breastfeeding which makes it superior to artificial feeding.
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