TY - JOUR AU - Hasan, Shukir Saleem PY - 2016/12/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Factors influence on Primigravida’s knowledge regarding exclusive breastfeeding benefits in Maternity Teaching Hospital: Erbil city - Kurdistan region – Iraq JF - Zanco Journal of Medical Sciences (Zanco J Med Sci) JA - Zanco J Med Sci VL - 20 IS - 3 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.15218/zjms.2016.0051 UR - https://zjms.hmu.edu.krd/index.php/zjms/article/view/131 SP - 1505_1512 AB - <p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Background and objective: </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">A wealth of evidence demonstrates that exclusive breastfeeding provides numerous short-and long-term benefits for both mother and child. This study aimed to find out the association between socio-demographic characteristics and to predict the associated factors which influence on the knowledge of primigravidas. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Methods: </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">A&nbsp;Hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted at Maternity Teaching Hospital in Erbil city, Iraq, during the period&nbsp;from March 23</span><sup><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;">rd</span></sup><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">, to July 1</span><sup><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;">st</span></sup><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">, 2015. A convenience sample of 180 primigravidas was included in the study. Data were collected by using a questionnaire. Chi-square test and linear regression were used to investigate the significance association and predict the factors associated with knowledge. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Results: </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">The study found that most of the primigravidas were between 17 and 23 years old, housewives, primary school graduates, and living in low socio-economic status. The statistically significant association existed between age, education, socio-economic status and occupation of respondents with their knowledge. Linear regression predicted that the age and occupation were two factors associated with primigravida’s knowledge. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Conclusion: </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Primigravida pregnant in Erbil city demonstrated poor knowledge concerning breastfeeding benefits,&nbsp;the study found a significant association between some of the variables with primigravidas knowledge and age and occupation were two factors which influenced primigravidas knowledge. </span></p> ER -