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  • Holowko, Natalie (författare)

High education and increased parity are associated with breast-feeding initiation and duration among Australian women

  • Artikel/kapitelEngelska2016

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  • 2016
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  • LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:su-128602
  • https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-128602URI
  • https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980016000367DOI
  • http://kipublications.ki.se/Default.aspx?queryparsed=id:134299674URI

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  • Språk:engelska
  • Sammanfattning på:engelska

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  • Objective: Breast-feeding is associated with positive maternal and infant health and development outcomes. To assist identifying women less likely to meet infant nutritional guidelines, we investigated the role of socio-economic position and parity on initiation of and sustaining breast-feeding for at least 6 months.Design: Prospective cohort study.Setting: Australia.Subjects: Parous women from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (born 1973–78), with self-reported reproductive and breast-feeding history (N 4777).Results: While 89 % of women (83 % of infants) had ever breast-fed, only 60 % of infants were breast-fed for at least 6 months. Multiparous women were more likely to breast-feed their first child (~90 % v. ~71 % of primiparous women), and women who breast-fed their first child were more likely to breast-feed subsequent children. Women with a low education (adjusted OR (95 % CI): 2·09 (1·67, 2·62)) or a very low-educated parent (1·47 (1·16, 1·88)) had increased odds of not initiating breast-feeding with their first or subsequent children. While fewer women initiated breast-feeding with their youngest child, this was most pronounced among high-educated women. While ~60 % of women breast-fed their first, second and third child for at least 6 months, low-educated women (first child, adjusted OR (95 % CI): 2·19 (1·79, 2·68)) and women with a very low (1·82 (1·49, 2·22)) or low-educated parent (1·69 (1·33, 2·14)) had increased odds of not breast-feeding for at least 6 months.Conclusions: A greater understanding of barriers to initiating and sustaining breastfeeding, some of which are socio-economic-specific, may assist in reducing inequalities in infant breast-feeding.

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  • Jones, Mark (författare)
  • Koupil, IlonaStockholms universitet,Centrum för forskning om ojämlikhet i hälsa (CHESS),Karolinska Institutet, Sweden(Swepub:su)ikoup (författare)
  • Tooth, Leigh (författare)
  • Mishra, Gita (författare)
  • Stockholms universitetCentrum för forskning om ojämlikhet i hälsa (CHESS) (creator_code:org_t)

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  • Ingår i:Public Health Nutrition19:14, s. 2551-25611368-98001475-2727

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