Breast milk expression practice and factors affecting it among mothers of preterm and low birth weight neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit of government hospitals in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia.

dc.contributor.advisorMekonnen, Hussen(PhD)
dc.contributor.advisorAbebe, Fikrtemariam (MSc)
dc.contributor.authorHirpha, Misgana
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-20T08:31:52Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-06T09:02:09Z
dc.date.available2020-12-20T08:31:52Z
dc.date.available2023-11-06T09:02:09Z
dc.date.issued2020-07
dc.description.abstractBackground: World Health Organization recommends that breastfeeding should start within the first hour of birth in term and within the first six hours for preterm by expressing breast milk. In early preterm and very low birth weight breast milk expression is an optimal solution to continue with breastfeeding. Objective: The aim this study was to assess breast milk expression practices and factors affecting it among mothers of preterm and low birth weight infants in NICUs of government hospitals in Addis Ababa. Methods and materials: Facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted on a total of 124 mothers who were in NICU selected sequentially. Pretested structured questionnaire was used to collect data and the collected data were coded, entered, and cleaned using Epidata version 4.6.0.2 then exported to SPSS version 26 for analysis. Odds ratios along with 95%CI were estimated to identify factors affecting breast milk expression practice using logistic regression analysis. Level of statistical significance was declared at p-value ≤ 0.05. Results: The magnitude of late initiation of breast expression, inadequate frequency and inadequate volume were 100%, 40.3% and 33.9% respectively. Getting instruction on method of their choice (AOR=0.55; CI=0.31 to 0.96) and gestational age ≤32 weeks (AOR=2.39; CI=1.34 to 4.24) were factors significantly associated with initiation milk expression. Stable health status of baby (AOR=0.11; CI=0.01 to 0.83), fair (subcritical) health status of baby (AOR=0.07; CI=0.01 to 0.55), were facilitators of adequate amount of milk; and worry about volume milk (AOR=7.50; CI=3.32 to 16.95) and worry about health status of baby (AOR=4.63; CI=2.21 to 9.70) were significantly affect the volume of expressed breast milk. Conclusions: The present study indicated practice of early initiation of milk expression was poor. In order to promote good practice breast milk expression among mothers of preterm and low birth weight inter-departmental collaboration is required.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/24204
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAddis Abeba Universityen_US
dc.subjectBreast milk expression, preterm, low birth weight, NICUen_US
dc.titleBreast milk expression practice and factors affecting it among mothers of preterm and low birth weight neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit of government hospitals in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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