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    Assesement of Fathers Attitude Towards Breast Feeding and Associated Factors Among Fathers who Acompaing Their Partner for Delivery in Selected Govemental Hospitals Ofaddis Abeba, Ethopia, 2017
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-06) Birhanu, Elasbet; Fantahun, Addishiwot (PhD)
    Background Breast feeding is unambiguously important for child growth and development. World health organization and united nation children’s emergency international fund recommended that children get breast milk exclusively for 6 months and extends to 24 months with other additional feedings. However, these days there are many problems are seen in relation to initiation and continuation of breast feeding practice. Out of those problems, fathers support and father’s attitude towards breast feeding is directly or indirectly affects initiation and continuation rate of breast feeding. Objective The aim of this study will be to investigate father’s attitude towards breast feeding and its associated factors in selected governmental hospitals from April 17 to May 17, 2017 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Methods The study was used institutional based cross-sectional quantitative method with structured interview as a data collection tool. In order to select sampling units from the given 8 hospitals, lottery method was used and 4 hospitals were selected. A total of 422 fathers participated in this study and allocate to each selected hospitals proportion to size. To select study participant’s convenience sampling was used. All interview questions analyzed by using SPSS version 20 for data entry and analysis. Results A total of 243(52%) of participants had negative attitude towards breast feeding poor breast feeding knowledge (35%), fathers not support in house hold chores(46.2%) and cultural role(56.9%) had association with negative attitude. Conclusion and recommendation 52% of the participants had negative attitude towards breast feeding. Good breast feeding knowledge, fathers support in house hold chores and cultural role were found to be associated with attitude about breast feeding in this study. Guide lines should be developed and implemented related to breast feeding attitude of fathers. Key words: breast feeding, fathers, attitude.