Level of Exclusive Breastfeeding and Its Enabling Factors Among Lactating Women Who Delivered in Health Facilites of Asosa Town, Ethiopia: a Cross Sectional Study

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Abstract Background: Despite the enormous benefit of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) to mothers and infants, the practice of exclusive breastfeeding is globally low. In sub-Saharan Africa and Ethiopia, the prevalence of EBF stands at 35% and 58%, respectively. The low EBF practice in Ethiopia calls for further study and thus we studied the EBF practice in the study area since little is known about its current magnitude and factors influencing its practice for some programmatic improvements. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from June-July 2019 among 412 mothers who delivered in health facilities of Asosa town. Data on socio demographic characteristics and other important variables were collected through face to face interview by trained health extension workers in accordance with relevant ethical guidelines and regulations. The collected data were then cleaned and entered into Epi-data software version 3.02. Analysis was done by SPSS version 20. Binary and multivariate logistic regression were performed to identify the contributing factors. P-value of less than 0.05 and 95% confidence interval was considered to determine statistical significance.Results: Of the 412 respondents, the majority (88.1%) were multi-gravida and above. Less than a quarter (26.0%) and over half (55.4%) had neither received antenatal nor postnatal care. The proportion of mothers who exclusively breastfed their children was 76.0% and the overall aggregated good practice of EBF score was 64.1%. mothers who completed primary school [AOR=4.5; 95%CI=1.1,18.2], had three or more ANC [AOR=0.018;95CI=0.003-0.12], and postnatal follow-up [AOR=0.218;95%CI=0.07-0.67], and had male infants [AOR= 2.3; 95%CI=1.0-4.95] were among the enabling factors influencing the exclusive breastfeeding practice score.Conclusion: Women’s retention on the continuum of the maternal care pathway is low with about a quarter of mothers were not practicing EBFand one in two had no postnatal care. To narrow the observed maternal and child health disparities, it is essential to intervene through focused actions that address the above enabling factors.

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