Letters in Health and Biological SciencesLetters in Health and Biological SciencesLetters in Health and Biological SciencesLetters in Health and Biological Sciences2475-6245Ommega Online PublishersNew Jersey, USA185910.15436/2475-6245.18.1859Research ArticleMagnitude of Pre-Lacteal Feeding Practice and Associated Factors among Mothers having Children Less than 2 Years of Age in Fitche Town, North Showa, EthiopiaMagnitude of Pre-Lacteal Feeding Practice and Associated Factors among Mothers having Children Less than 2 Years of Age in Fitche Town, North Showa, EthiopiaAdmasuGizaw1Mizan Tepi University School of Nursing Ethiopia2Jimma University school of nursing and Midwifery Ethiopia3Addis Ababa University collage of Health Science School of Nursing and Midwifery EthiopiaEditor* E-mail: adamasu2004@gmail.com
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
20181106201831LHBS-18-RA-185912042018120420182018Creative Commons Attribution LicenseThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. nbsp Background Pre-lacteal feed is food and or fluid provided to a new-born before initiating breastfeeding Initiation of complementary feedings before six months can lead to displacement of breast milk which may increase risk of infections such as diarrhoea weight loss and malnutrition This study was aimed to assess magnitude of pre-lacteal feeding practice and associated factors Methods Community based cross-sectional study was conducted among mothers having children less than two years by using systematic sampling technique Interviewer administered structured questionnaires were used to collect data then interred in to EPI data version 3 1 Finally the data was exported to SPSS version 22 for analysis Descriptive statistics and logistic regression were done P-value of less than 0 05 was taken as statistically significant Results The magnitude of pre-lacteal feeding practice was 24 4 The common type of prelacteal feeding was plain water 39 12 2 followed by butter 25 7 8 Those mothers who didn rsquo t get counselling on breast feeding were seven times more likely practice pre-lacteal feeding compared to those who were counselled AOR 7 07 95 CI 1 67 29 88 Mothers who are not knowledgeable about risk pre-lacteal feeding were 8 56 times more likely practice prelacteal feeding compared to knowledgeable mothers AOR 8 56 95 CI 2 65 27 64 Conclusion About one fourth of mothers 24 4 practice pre-lacteal feeding which makes breastfeeding practices sub-optima at the study area Absence of counselling on breast feeding and being not knowledgeable about the risk of prelacteal feeding was significantly associated with pre-lacteal feeding practice among the study participants 10