Attitudes and Practices of Rural and Urban Women Towards Breastfeeding

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CHAPTER - V

RESULTS

This chapter dealt with the findings of the study to compare the knowledge, attitudes and practices of rural and urban woman towards breastfeeding. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data and analysis was done with the help of descriptive statistical method and chi - square test. P value <0.05 was considered as significant.

Results were presented under the following headings:

Part I: Deals with the frequency and percentage distribution of demographic characteristics of rural and urban women.

Part II: Deals with the overall breastfeeding knowledge scores obtained from the rural and urban women.

Part III: Deals with the overall breastfeeding attitude scores obtained from the rural and urban women.

Part IV: Deals with the breastfeeding practices among the rural and urban women.

5.1 Sample characteristics

This part dealt with the distribution of sample based on the demographic variables.

A total of 200 women were included in the study among which 100 were from rural and 100 from urban areas. Among 200 women majority of the women(44%)( 33% rural and 55% urban)were between the age group of 21-25 years and 28% (56)were between the age group of 15-20 years. Only 10% of the total sample were in between 31-35 years.

Most of them were Hindus(60.5%) and were from nuclear family(62%). A further 27.5% women were Muslims and 12% were reported as Christians.37% of the mothers were from joint families. Rural women were more likely to be Hindus, from nuclear families and were house wives.

The mothers education was mainly secondary school (30.5%) followed by primary education (23%). 25 rural and 21 urban mothers were illiterates. There was a great variation among educational...

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...of urban women (34%) started weaning prematurely (p=0.0002) , where as majority of rural respondents started at 8 months, (p= 0.01) and some after one year (p=0.02).

Table-10

Distribution of sample according to source of breastfeeding knowledge

Variables Rural n=100 Urban n=100 Total n=200 P value

n % n % n %

Doctor 29 29 42 42 71 35.5 0.122

Nurse 30 30 48 48 78 39 0.041

Neighbors’ 9 9 0 0 9 4.5 0.002

Family members 32 32 10 10 42 21 0.0006

Total 100 100 100 100 200 100

Majority of the urban mothers obtained information about breast feeding from doctors(42%) and nurses(48%) during their antenatal visits, whereas large proportion of the rural women got this information from family members( 32%) (p=0.0006)and nurses(30%)(p=0.041) the role of neighbors in imparting knowledge regarding breastfeeding was minimal (p=0.002).

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