Table 6.

factors associated with the risk of discontinuing exclusive breastfeeding which is the outcome event. Risks for ceasing breastfeeding in final model using Cox regression analyses with hazard ratios (HR) and 95%confidence intervals (95%CI)

Variable	Β	HR	95%CI	Se	z	P
Planned pregnancy	−0.385	0.681	0.531,0.873	0.127	9.166	0.002
Milk delivery during hospitalization	−0.586	0.797	0.412,2.288	0.123	22.706	<0.001
Artificial feeding of premature infants in NICU	1.509	1.221	0.128,1.381	0.278	29.512	<0.001
High Level of family support	−0.445	0.561	0.004,2.428	0.225	3.904	0.048

Β Regression Coefficient, HR risk ratio; CI Confidence Interval; Se standard error; z Wald Statistics

P p-Value