Table 2.
Knowledge of study participant mothers towards exclusive breast feeding, Dabat Health Center, Northwest Ethiopia, 2016. n = 384.
| Variables | Frequency | Percent (%) |
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| Do you know about exclusive breast feeding? | ||
| Yes | 315 | 82 |
| No | 69 | 18 |
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| Source of information | ||
| Friends | 10 | 2.6 |
| Mass media | 59 | 15.4 |
| Health institution | 255 | 66.4 |
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| Right time to give BM to a child after birth | ||
| After giving some butter | 31 | 8.1 |
| Within an hour | 269 | 70 |
| After one hour | 54 | 14.1 |
| After 24 hours | 30 | 7.8 |
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| What do you do with the first milk or colostrum? | ||
| Discard | 174 | 45.3 |
| Feed immediately | 210 | 54.7 |
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| Right time to start complementary foods | ||
| 3 months | 10 | 2.6 |
| 4 months | 34 | 8.8 |
| 5 months | 23 | 6 |
| 6 months | 311 | 81 |
| 7 months or above | 6 | 1.6 |
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| Foods or fluids recommended to under 6 months' child | ||
| Only breast milk | 236 | 61.5 |
| Breast milk and/or water or sugar | 113 | 29.4 |
| Infant formula | 7 | 1.8 |
| Others | 28 | 7.3 |
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| Is prelacteal feeding needed? | ||
| Yes | 75 | 19.5 |
| No | 292 | 76.1 |
| I do not know | 17 | 4.4 |
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| BM alone is enough for infant < 6 months of life | ||
| Yes | 250 | 65.1 |
| No | 99 | 25.8 |
| I do not know | 35 | 9.1 |
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| EBF prevents diarrheal and respiratory diseases | ||
| Yes | 234 | 60.9 |
| No | 62 | 16.2 |
| I do not know | 88 | 22.9 |
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| Knowledge score | ||
| Good | 268 | 69.8 |
| Poor | 116 | 30.2 |