Sociodemographic factors related to the practice of breastfeeding
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Keywords
Maternal Breast Feeding, Sociodemographics Factors
Abstract
Objective: To determine if the socio-demographics factors influence or not in the practice of the feeding to the maternal breast in children that are one year old or less.
Material and methods: It is carried out in the pediatric urgencies department of the UMF No. 79 and the HGZ No. 11 of the IMSS of Piedras Negras Coahuila. The calculation of the size of the surveys is n = 220. The measurement instrument is constructed and validated, divided in the following three sections: sociodemographic data, in order to measure the knowledge, and the practice of maternal lactencies.
Results: The table 2 show us by age the shows, the mothers of 36 to 45 years have the highest percentage with an 89%; by schooling, occupation and civil estate predominates the feeding with industrialized milk. The table 2 shows that in the feeding to the maternal breast period, related with the sociodemografic factors, there's a distribution regularity uniform. In the table 3 we see that the knowledge of the mothers is good. In the table 4, in order with the sociodemographics characteristics, the knowledge and the practice is of a 67%.
Conclusions: It is not managed to determine if the sociodemografic factors influence in the practice of the feeding lo the maternal breast.
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