Mohamad Ariff, Amanina Husna (2019) Factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding duration among first time mothers in Kuala Lumpur. [Project Paper] (Submitted)
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Abstract
Breastfeeding is a natural way of providing an infant with nutrients that essential for optimal growth, health, and cognitive development. However, the rate of exclusive breastfeeding up to 6 months in Malaysia still below the Global Nutrition Aim 2025 (to achieve 50% of the population) even though there was an increase from 23 .3 % in 2011 to 4 7 .1 % in 2016. Psychological, social demographic factor, emotional, economic status, support system, and the environmental factor could be a part of the f actors that could influence the mother's decision to breastfed their baby. This present study were to determine the association of sociodemographic factors, maternal psychology state, breastfeeding education and breastfeeding support with exclusive breastfeeding duration among first time mothers who attended Klinik Kesihatan Kuala Lumpur. A set of self-administered questionnaire was used in this study to determine the factors that associated with exclusive breastfeeding duration among 145 first time mothers. There were consist of 5 section (A, B, C, D and E). Section A was to identify the socio-demographic (age, ethnicity, education level, marital status, employment status, and monthly income) by using self-develop questionnaire. Section B was determined the infant feeding practises that can observed the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding among respondents. Section C was access the maternal psychological state by using Depression, anxiety and stress (DASS-21) which consists of 21 items. In addition, for section D was to assess the breastfeeding know ledge of mothers. This section have two part which part A was obtained breastfeeding information or resources of mothers during their pregnancy while part B was to determine the knowledge of breastfeeding covered the general knowledge of breastfeeding. Section E was to assess the breastfeeding support levels from the paternal by using Partner Breastfeeding Influence Scale (PBIS). From the result obtained, majority of the respondents were Malay (91.7%), have tertiary education (67.6%) and gained moderate monthly income RMI000-RMI 999 (28.3%). Only 47. l % of the respondents were exclusively breastfeeding their infants at 6 months. There were no significant association between socio-demographic factors, maternal psychological stated, breastfeeding education and breastfeeding support among first time mothers in Kuala Lumpur (p>0.05). However, maternal psychological state score were negatively associated with breastfeeding knowledge (r= -0.21, p=0.012) and support (r= -0.261, p= 0.002) showing that mothers who have higher breastfeeding knowledge and and support tend to have less stress. As conclusion, this finding suggest that there were no significant association of maternal psychological state, breastfeeding education and breastfeeding support with exclusive breastfeeding duration probably because this population have good psychological stated, good breastfeeding know ledge and high support from the partner.
| Item Type: | Project Paper |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Science |
| Depositing User: | Ms Norafizah Radzuan |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2025 08:59 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2025 08:59 |
| URI: | http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/2500 |
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