Breastfeeding Prevalence and Factors Affecting Breastfeeding Duration Among Urban Multi-ethnic Malaysian Mothers: A Single-Center University Hospital Study-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Breastfeeding Prevalence and Factors Affecting Breastfeeding Duration Among Urban Multi-ethnic Malaysian Mothers: A Single-Center University Hospital Study

Published:2023-11-19 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1010-5395
Container-title:Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
language:en
Short-container-title:Asia Pac J Public Health

Author:

Heng Kai Voon¹,Lum Lucy Chai See²^ORCID,Breen Emer³,Lye Chuan Way⁴,Kuan Wai Chee⁵,Goh Saw Huan²,Tan Ling Hang²,Yip Kar Mun²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Tunku Azizah, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2. Department of Pediatrics, University Malaya Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

3. Department of Clinical Investigation, University of Malaya Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

4. Department of Public Health, University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

5. School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia

Abstract

Breastfeeding rates in urban Malaysian mothers are below World Health Organization (WHO) targets. Our prospective survey identified breastfeeding prevalences at 3, 6, and 12 months of 85.5%, 77%, and 60%, respectively. Combined (direct and expressed) breastfeeding significantly sustained longer-term breastfeeding. Efforts should be focused on mothers of Indian ethnicity and on expression after 1 month postpartum.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10105395231211978

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