Breast-feeding practices in Schedule Caste communities in Haryana state.
Indian Pediatr
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1994 Oct; 31(10): 1227-32
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-8480
ABSTRACT
A study was conducted to assess exclusive breast-feeding, continued breast-feeding, bottle-feeding, predominant breast-feeding, timely complementary feeding and other breast-feeding practices in 818 children in the age group of 0-3 years belonging to the Schedule Caste communities of Haryana. The exclusive breast-feeding rate was 0.15 and the predominant breast-feeding rate 0.75 in children < 4 months. Timely complementary feeding rate was 0.42. The continued breast-feeding rate at 1 year and 2 years was 0.84 and 0.58, respectively. The bottle-feeding rate, ever breast-fed rate, timely first-suckling rate and exclusive breast-feeding rate by mother were 0.09, 1.0, 0.0 and 0.15, respectively. The median duration of breast-feeding was 16 months.
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Index:
IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Poverty
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Time Factors
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Weaning
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Bottle Feeding
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Breast Feeding
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Infant, Newborn
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Ethnicity
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Indian Pediatr
Year:
1994
Type:
Article
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