Factores que inciden en el abandono de lactancia materna exclusiva en la Clínica Hospital Municipal Julia Esther González Delgado

Exclusive breastfeeding provides babies with all the nutrients necessary to grow and to help to developed fully their immune system during the growth stage: preventing infections in children, improving intelligence, anthropometric and motor development; in addition, to reduce the risk of overweight and diabetes in adulthood; this is why the following research was carried out with the general objective of analyzing the factors that influence the abandonment of exclusive breastfeeding in mothers attending the Julia Ester González Delgado Municipal Hospital Clinic. The present study was descriptive, quantitative cross-sectional applied to 50 mothers of children under 6 months, the information was collected through a previously validated survey. In relation to the results, it was possible to identify that: 70% of mothers range in age from 20 to 35 years, their level of education is higher in 48%, 40% are married, 44% are housewives, and 48% of their income comes from father and mother; regarding the factors associated with the abandonment of EBF: 94% know that breastfeeding is an ideal food for the newborn, 74% consider it to be on demand and every time that the baby asks it. Moreover, it was evidenced the main biological factor is hypogalactia in 36%, and painful and inflamed nipples that present cracks in 30%. In conclusion, the abandonment of breastfeeding may be affected by different factors, however, the low level of knowledge was not a determining factor for it, unlike biological factors that presented a significant problem for the abandonment of EBF

• 主要作者: Cango Salinas, Karla Jessenia (author)
• 格式: bachelorThesis
• 語言: spa
• 出版: 2022
• 主題: ENFERMERÍA; LACTANCIA MATERNA; SISTEMA INMUNOLÓGICO; NUTRICIÓN
• 在線閱讀: https://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/25616