Failure Factor on Exclusive Breastfeeding in Chaiyaphum Hospital

Abstract

Background : Currently, only breastfeeding is decreasing because there are essential factors preventing mothers from continuously breastfeeding. It may be caused by not receiving the right information and the support for mothers, a lack of knowledge and understanding, a lack of experience, maternal and child health conditions, as well as medical-, family-, social-, and cultural issues, also the advertising media factors. Therefore, the researcher was interested in studying and analyzing the factors that affected breastfeeding failure to use the information obtained as a guideline for caring for patients in the breast milk clinic of Chaiyaphum Hospital as well as proposing a policy to solve this problem at the national level.
Objective : To assess the factor that affects the failure of exclusive breastfeeding.
Methods : Pregnancy patients with antenatal care (ANC) and had delivery at Chaiyaphum Hospital between April 1^st. 2019 and April 30^th. 2020 were identified. The telephone questions were used for call data collection. The relationship between the data was tested using the Chi-squared test
Results : The hundred and fifteen pregnant patients had antenatal care (ANC) and delivery at Chaiyaphum Hospital between April 1^st. 2019 and April 30^th. 2020. The mean age of patients was 26.6 years (range, 15 to 42 years, SD 6.87). The mean gestational age (GA) was 38.3 weeks (range, 35 to 41 weeks, SD 1.13). The mean of GA at the first ANC was 12 weeks (range, 4 to 40, SD 8.07). The number of ANC was 10.1 (range, 0 to 21 weeks, SD 3.71), and the mean of fetal weight was 3,154.3 g. (range, 2,370 to 4,545 g, SD 401.41). The factors that affect the most breastfeeding failure are familial factors accounting for 50.9 percent. Next is the baby factor representing 26.7 percent.
Conclusion : The results of this research found that the failure factor affecting the full 6 months of breastfeeding was the family factor. It included beliefs, attitudes, education, household income as well as knowledge and awareness of the importance of breastfeeding. Following the infant factor, especially in cases with suction problems, other illnesses and sticking of rubber stoppers, this research study made medical personnel aware of the factors affecting breastfeeding failure to be used in planning the care of patients in this group more efficiently.
Keyword : Exclusive breastfeeding