Determinants of early initiation of breast feeding among mothers of children aged less than 24 months in Ethiopia: A community-based cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aims to assess the prevalence of early initiation of breast feeding (EIBF) and associated factors among mothers having children less than 2 years of age in Ethiopia.

Design

Community-based cross-sectional study.

Setting

In this analysis, data from 2019 Ethiopia Mini Demographic and Health Survey (EMDHS) was used. The survey included all the nine regional states and two city administrations of Ethiopia.

Participants

We extracted data of 2054 mothers who had last-born children and those mothers who ever breast fed or still breast feeding their children during the survey from the 2019 EMDHS datasets.

Main outcome measures

We performed a two-stage multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression to identify individual and community-level det

SUBMITTER: Sako S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9621175 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature