A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE SOCIO – CULTURAL BELIEFS INFLUENCING BREASTFEEDING PRACTICES AMONG PRIMI POSTNATAL MOTHER‘S VISITING SELECTED IMMUNIZATION CLINIC IN, INDORE

Prof. Asha Sreenivasan; Prof. Gauri Manohar

Volume : IX, Issue : VIII, August - 2019

A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE SOCIO – CULTURAL BELIEFS INFLUENCING BREASTFEEDING PRACTICES AMONG PRIMI POSTNATAL MOTHER‘S VISITING SELECTED IMMUNIZATION CLINIC IN, INDORE

Prof. Asha Sreenivasan, Prof. Gauri Manohar

Abstract :

Back ground: Breast milk is nature’s most precious gift to the new born, and equivalent of which is yet to be innovated by the scientific community despite tremendous advance in science and technology Breast milk full of species specific anti –infective factors act as the first vaccination for babies to prevent disease.Breast feeding provides most suitable nutrition for infants and protects them against infections, allergies and.The purpose of this study was to investigate the Socio – cultural beliefs influencing eastfeeding practices among primi postnatal mother’s Objectives:1. To assess the socio–cultural beliefs influencing eastfeeding practices among primi postnatal mothers. 2.To find out the association between socio–cultural beliefs in east feeding practices among primi postnatal mothers with their selected socio–demographic variables Methodology: A descriptive study design was used to achieve the objectives of the study. The study was conducted with 50 postnatal mothers from selected area. Purposive sample technique was adopted to select the sample. The data was collected with a self modified likert type belief scale. The data obtained would be analyzed by both descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The findings shows that none of the postnatal mothers had positive belief towards east feeding practice were as 39(78%) of them had neutral belief and 11(22%) of postnatal mothers had negative socio cultural beliefs on east feeding practices. Demographic factors like monthly income the calculated value are higher than table value so it was found as significant at 0.05 levels. All other was found as not significant at 0.05