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Pathways linking social support, self-efficacy, and exclusive breastfeeding among women in northern Uganda.
- Source :
- Global Public Health; Dec2022, Vol. 17 Issue 12, p3506-3518, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Despite improvements in infant feeding practices over the past two decades, the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is below global targets. Social support can create an enabling environment for recommended infant feeding practices such as EBF, but the types of social support most important for sustained EBF and their potential mechanisms of action have not been thoroughly characterized. We therefore aimed to assess the relationship between EBF-specific social support, EBF self-efficacy, and EBF at 1 and 3 months among postpartum women in northern Uganda. Women (n = 238, 36.2% living with HIV) were recruited during pregnancy. EBF, social support, and EBF self-efficacy were assessed at 1 and 3 months postpartum. Path analysis was used to assess relationships between these factors. Most mothers exclusively breastfed to 1 (80.8%) and 3 months postpartum (62.9%). EBF-specific, but not general, social support differed by EBF status. EBF-specific social support was associated with higher odds of EBF, which was almost fully mediated by EBF self-efficacy. That is, there was evidence that social support primarily influences EBF through its association with self-efficacy. In sum, EBF-specific social support and self-efficacy likely promote EBF and are modifiable factors that can be intervened upon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SOCIAL support
CONFIDENCE intervals
PREGNANT women
SELF-efficacy
INFANT nutrition
T-test (Statistics)
BREASTFEEDING
RESEARCH funding
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
QUESTIONNAIRES
CHI-squared test
FACTOR analysis
POSTNATAL care
LOGISTIC regression analysis
PATH analysis (Statistics)
DATA analysis software
ODDS ratio
WOMEN'S health
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17441692
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Global Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 161686524
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2022.2110918