2017, Number 1
Exclussive breast feeding during the first semester of life. Maternal stres and anxiety
Language: Spanish
References: 20
Page: 37-52
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: the superiority of breast-feeding is unquestionable.Objective: to identify if there is any influence of levels of vulnerability to stress and anxiety of mothers on exclusive breast-feeding in the first semester of life.
Methods: A descriptive, retrospective study was performed with 110 mothers and their infants from ten Doctor’s Offices at “Santiago Rafael Echezarreta Mulkay” University Policlinic in the urban area in San José de las Lajas, Mayabeque, Cuba, from June 1st, 2014 to February 1st, 2016.
Results: 72, 7% of mothers were between 20 and 35 years old, 46, 4 % with 12th grade of scholarship, 45,5% of them, work; 57,3% have only her current son. Most of the women keep stable partners and the 57, 3 were healthy women. When the first semester was finished the stress and anxiety levels of vulnerability of mothers were low in the 54,5% and 48,2 % respectively. The 49,1 % of the infants received exclusive breast feeding between four to five months and the 27,3 %, six months. The best results of exclusive breast-feeding when the first semester was finished were in mothers with less stress and anxiety levels of vulnerability, in contraposition to low levels in those ones with higher stress and anxiety levels of vulnerability.
Conclusions: it was evident in the first semester, the relation between levels of vulnerability to stress and anxiety in mothers and exclusive breast-feeding.
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