Inmigración, lactancia materna y tabaquismo / No disponible

ABSTRACT

Objectives: to study the prevalence of maternal lactation in the immigrant and native populationfrom a Primary Care paediatric clinic in Madrid and to determine the influence of thesmoking habit in the initiation and duration of breastfeeding.Subjects and methods: cross-sectional retrospective study. Information was collected byquestionnaires in 506 children up to 7 years of age. The chi-square test was used to comparepercentages. A multiple logistic and lineal regression was carried out. Results: 16.4% of children were sons and daughters of immigrants, 86.7% of their mothersinitiated breastfeeding and 75.9% of them continued breastfeeding at 3 months. 14.4% of immigrantwomen were smokers. Multivariant analysis showed that to be the children of immigrantswas positively associated with starting breastfeeding while the weight at birth < 2.5 kg was negativelyassociated; continuing maternal lactation at 3 months was negatively associated with malesex, weight < 2.5 kg at birth and smoking habit in the mother. Multiple lineal regression revealedthat the child’s age and to be children of immigrants were positive factors while smoking duringpregnancy and male sex were negative factors of breastfeeding duration respectively.Conclusions: to be immigrant is a helping factor to start breastfeeding but not for continuingit at 3 months. At 3 months, male sex, smoking habit in the mother and weight birth <2.5 kg are risk factors for not receiving breast feeding (AU)