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A STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING BREAST FEEDING AMONG BREAST FEEDING MOTHERS IN GENERAL HOSPITAL AT JODHPUR WITH A VIEW TO DEVELOP AN INFORMATION BOOKLET ON BREASTFEEDING

*Yogeshwar Kumar Mutha, Himalay Choudhary, Lalita Rathore, Manju Pareek, Khush Kumar Soni

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Abstract

Breast-feeding may be the single most important thing a mother can do for the health of her infant in the first year of life. For most of the world’s children exclusive breast-feeding makes the difference between life and death and it is the infants “passport to life”. A breast fed baby enjoys not only the comfort of warm breast butwith all her senses she drinks in her mother’s love. The present study aims at assessing the knowledge of mothers regarding breast feeding with a view to develop an information booklet. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 1. To assess the existing knowledge of breast feeding mothers regarding breast feeding 2. To find out the association between demographic variables and knowledge of mothers regarding breastfeeding. 3. To develop information booklet regarding breastfeeding. Material And Methods: A descriptive approach was used for this study. The study was carried out in selected general hospital at jodhpur. The research design was descriptive research design. The samples comprised of 60 mothers in shree ram hospital. The mothers were selected by purposive sampling technique. The data collection was done between 1-october-2015 to 7- October-2015. Formal written permission was obtained from the authorities to conduct the study. Data was collected by administering a self administered questionnaire and an information booklet. The data was analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The result of the study shown that 30(50%) of the Mothers had moderate knowledge followed by 26(43.33%) adequate knowledge and 4(6.67%) had inadequate knowledge regarding Breast Feeding. There was significant association between the level of knowledge and selected demographical variables like age(χ2=15.431), education(χ2=30.997), occupation (χ2=21.365), area of residence(χ2=27.201), monthly family income(χ2=17.647), and religion(χ2=15.431). Gravida(χ2=8.885) and Type of Family(χ2=1.420) were not significant at 0.05 level. Therefore the hypothesis stated there will be significant association between knowledge of Mothers regarding Breast Feeding and selected demographic variables is accepted. Interpretations and conclusion: The findings of this study support the need for conducting an awareness programme on breast feeding among mothers of infants between age group 0 to 1 years. The study proved that majority of the mothers had moderate knowledge on breast feeding.

Keywords: Knowledge, Mothers, Breast Feeding And Information Booklet.