Breastfeeding education, early skin-to-skin contact and other strong determinants of exclusive breastfeeding in an urban population: a prospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The current study aims to demonstrate independent associations between social, educational and health practice interventions as determinants of exclusive breastfeeding in an urban Ecuadorian population.

Design

Prospective survival analyses.

Setting

Ecuadorian mother-child dyads in urban settings.

Participants

We followed-up 363 mother-baby dyads who attended healthcare centres in Portoviejo, province of Manabi, for a median time (P25-P75) of 125 days (121-130 days).

Main outcome measures

We performed a survival analysis, by setting the time-to-abandonment of exclusive breastfeeding measured in days of life, that is, duration of exclusive breastfeeding, periodically assessed by phone, as the primary outcome. Crude and adjusted mixed-effects Cox

SUBMITTER: Duenas-Espin I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7978273 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature