Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of mothers on early breast feeding initiation after delivery in Debre Tabor Referral Hospital, and South West Ethiopia 2019: Institution based crosses sectional Study.

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Abstract BackgroundThe global breastfeeding recommendation states that all infants should be put to the breast within one hour of birth, which is defined as timely initiation or early initiation of breastfeeding. Early initiation of breastfeeding is having the capability to reduced risk in infant illness and death. Understanding the determinants of delay in initiation of breastfeeding might spur health staff and policy makers to foster timely breastfeeding. Therefore, this study was intended to assess Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of mothers on the early initiation of breast feeding in the study area.ObjectiveTo assess knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers on the early breast feeding initiation after delivery in Debre Tabor Referral Hospital from December 1/2018-January 30/2019.MethodsInstitutional based cross sectional study design was done to assess knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers on the early breast feeding initiation after delivery in Debre Tabor Referral Hospital from December 1/2018-January 30/2019 with a total sample of 336. Simple random sampling technique was used and data was collected by using structured questionnaire. Data was entered into Epi info version 7.2.0.1, and exported to SPSS window version 20 for analysis and the result was presented in tables and graphs.ResultThe overall knowledge, attitude and practice of breast feeding mothers about early initiation of breast feeding were 79.23%, 59.6% and 62.5% respectively, and 31% of mothers discard first milk or colostrum.Conclusion and recommendationsThe overall knowledge score of the pregnant mothers about early initiation of breast feeding was satisfactory while compared with different researches in Ethiopia and African but attitude of breast feeding mothers toward early initiation of breast was lower when compared with knowledge and practice of mother for this study and to alleviate this problem the organization and the health care providers should integrated and mobilize, educate and counsel about early initiation of breast feeding.

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