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<bold>Introduction</bold>: Recommended by the World Health Organization as the optimal way of infant feeding, maternal breast milk represents the best nourishment for the newborn baby during its first six months. The purpose of this study was to evaluate some of the Romanian mothers’ characteristics that can influence their attitude towards breastfeeding and food diversification.
<bold>Methods</bold>: A questionnaire about 32 questions, including demographics items and breastfeeding attitudes, was sent online (socializing platforms) in 2020 to mothers from all Romania districts. Our sample included at the end 1768 subjects, who fully completed the questionnaire. Statistical analysis was carried out using the GraphPad statistical software.
<bold>Results</bold>: The prevalence of breastfeeding for more than six months was only 32.18% in our group, and most of them were educated mothers who lives in urban areas (OR=2.76), were married (OR=1.98), had over 30 years old (OR=1.43) and have more than one child (OR=1.74).
<bold>Conclusions</bold>: We underline the importance of tackling in our future community interventions some of the socio-demographic characteristics of pregnant women (like groups education, good and accessible information about breastfeeding, young age, first pregnancy, or mothers from rural areas as well) in developing good habits of breastfeeding or complementary feeding, in order to improve their children health status and proper development.
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Introduction: Recommended by the World Health Organization as the optimal way of infant feeding, maternal breast milk represents the best nourishment for the newborn baby during its first six months. The purpose of this study was to evaluate some of the Romanian mothers’ characteristics that can influence their attitude towards breastfeeding and food diversification.
Methods: A questionnaire about 32 questions, including demographics items and breastfeeding attitudes, was sent online (socializing platforms) in 2020 to mothers from all Romania districts. Our sample included at the end 1768 subjects, who fully completed the questionnaire. Statistical analysis was carried out using the GraphPad statistical software.
Results: The prevalence of breastfeeding for more than six months was only 32.18% in our group, and most of them were educated mothers who lives in urban areas (OR=2.76), were married (OR=1.98), had over 30 years old (OR=1.43) and have more than one child (OR=1.74).
Conclusions: We underline the importance of tackling in our future community interventions some of the socio-demographic characteristics of pregnant women (like groups education, good and accessible information about breastfeeding, young age, first pregnancy, or mothers from rural areas as well) in developing good habits of breastfeeding or complementary feeding, in order to improve their children health status and proper development.

Breastfeeding and diversification attitudes among Romanian mothers

George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures

Department of Community Nutrition and Food Safety

Acta Marisiensis - Seria Medica

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Introduction: Recommended by the World Health Organization as the optimal way of infant feeding, maternal breast milk represents the best nourishment for the...

Breastfeeding and diversification attitudes among Romanian mothers

Published Online: Oct 05, 2021

Page range: 167 - 169

Received: Sep 01, 2021

Accepted: Sep 14, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amma-2021-0029

Keywords
breastfeeding, diversification, nutrition, infant

© 2021 Anastasia Simion et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Breastfeeding and diversification attitudes among Romanian mothers

Published Online: Oct 05, 2021

Page range: 167 - 169

Received: Sep 01, 2021

Accepted: Sep 14, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amma-2021-0029

Keywordsbreastfeeding, diversification, nutrition, infant

© 2021 Anastasia Simion et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
breastfeeding, diversification, nutrition, infant