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Mothers’ breastfeeding techniques and its correlation to their infants’ nutritional status: a study in a rural area
Proper breastfeeding techniques are important to maintain adequate breast milk supply. The study aimed to determine the breastfeeding techniques of mothers in rural areas and discover the correlation with the nutritional status of their infants. This research involved 107 mothers with infants aged 0-6 months and data was collected using observation sheets. The Spearman-Rho test was used to analyze the relationship between the breastfeeding technique and the nutritional status of the infants. Most respondents were mothers aged 26 to 35 with high school-level education and daily lives as housewives. Most of the infants were 3 months old (27.1%), female (57.9%), and some of them were macrocephaly (31.8%), underweight (26.2%), stunted (16.9%), and wasted (12.3%). Additionally, most mothers had an inappropriate breastfeeding technique (60.7%) and statistically, there was no correlation with the nutritional status of their infants aged 0-6 months (ρ>0.05). The results of this study require health workers to optimize the nutritional needs of infants in rural areas by providing effective educational strategies on proper breastfeeding techniques, regardless of other factors influencing nutritional status.
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