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Education, contraceptive use in women and the chance of six months exclusive breastfeeding in Indonesia

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Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months among Indonesian women is very low. This paper aimed to assess several factors related to exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months in Indonesia.

This paper used part of the data from National Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) 2012 from all (33) provinces in Indonesia based on stratified sampling design. The sub-sample included in this analysis were women aged 15-49 years who had a live last child aged 6 months at the time of interview, single birth, the baby lived with the mother, and had complete data for this analysis. The number women who with 2 year-old or less children and living with their mothers were 1040. For this analysis there were 325 women with 6 month-old babies.

The proportion of those with exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months was 3.7%. The final model revealed that contraception use and mother’s education were dominant risk factors for exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months. Compared to those who used hormonal contraception, those with non-hormonal as well as those who did not use any contraception had 7.3-fold and 9.1-fold, respectively, chance of practising exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months [adjusted relative risk (RRa) = 7.25; P= 0.031; and RRa = 9.08; P = 0.004 respectively]. Furthermore, in term of mother’s education, those who had low education compare with middle/higher education had 4.2-fold chance of practicing exclusive breastfeeding for six months (RRa = 4.19; P = 0.027).

Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months were more common among women who did not use any contraception as well as who had low education.

Key words: exclusive breastfeeding, education of mothers, contraceptive use

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Health Science Journal of Indonesia, 5 (1) : 17-22

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Jakarta : Sekretariat Balitbangkes., 2014

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5p

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2087-7021

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breast feeding
mothers
education

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