Tendências temporais e fatores associados à duração do aleitamento materno em Pernambuco

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:To analyze time trends in the duration of exclusive breastfeeding and associated protection factors. METHODS:Prevalances for total breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding in a population of four-month-old infants were analyzed. Data were obtained from population surveys carried out in 1991, 1997, and 2006, with 935, 2081, and 1568 infants respectively. The data were retrieved from interviews answered by parents or guardians. The prevalences were analyzed by Poisson regression in regard to: environmental, behavioral and socioeconomic conditions, maternal variables, and biological factors of infant. RESULTS:The median duration of total breastfeeding rose from 89 days (1991) to 106 days (1997), and fi nally to 183 days (2006). The median duration of exclusive breastfeeding remained around 30 days between 1997 and 2006. In the multivariate analysis, from the ten variables studied, only maternal schooling and age, address, and female gender of infant were maintained in the fi nal explanatory model. CONCLUSIONS:Despite the significant increase in terms of total breastfeeding duration, the same did not occur with the duration of exclusive breastfeeding.

Prevalência e determinantes do aleitamento materno exclusivo no município de Serrana, São Paulo, Brasil

“…Other studies, however, demonstrate that the interruption of EB in children under six months of age is associated with mothers' low education level (20,22) . Women's higher instruction level seems to be a predictive factor of successful EB, which may be related to increased maternal self-confidence when confronted with breast- feeding problems and discomfort, linked with the greater possibility of receiving information about the benefits of maternal benefits, which leads to less external influence, so that mothers start to reject practices that impair the breastfeeding process, with scientific evidence (20) .…”

Prevalence and associated factors for early interruption of exclusive breastfeeding: meta-analysis on Brazilian epidemiological studies

“…1,326 articles in the database were identified, in which 25 were selected for qualitative synthesis 2,10-33 and 22 were included in the meta-analysis. 2,[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][21][22][23]25,[27][28][29][30][31][32] The reasons for the exclusion of the articles were the absence of the association measurements, non-observational study designs, the EBF interruption assessment in groups of adolescent mothers and only breastfeeding analysis in the first month of life.…”

Psychometric and maternal sociodemographic assessment of the breastfeeding self-efficacy scale - short form in a brazilian sample

“…In Pernambuco (one northeast state) the median duration of total breastfeeding rose from 89 days (1991) to 183 days (2006), although the median duration of exclusive breastfeeding remained around 30 days between 1997 and 2006 [5] . The comparison between the areas shows more significant increases in the Southeast, North and Midwest.…”