Environmental Factors on Infant Feeding Practices in Lombok Island – Indonesia

C. Wekadigunawan, Rahmah Amin

2019

Abstract

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 that related to health is very important to improve the quality of life for all people, babies are included. The vision is ‘no one left behind’. Exclusive breastfeeding is a smart investment for our baby. Thus, the World Health Organization recommends to all of the health centers in the world to promote exclusive breastfeeding. However, the practice is not easy. In this study, the researcher found out environmental factors on infant feeding practices. The factors are traditional beliefs on infant feeding practices, family influence, and health care location. Methods: The sample of this research were 700 mothers who have a baby age six months – twelve months. We used a questionnaire as a tool to gather the data. The univariate and bivariate analysis was performed using the Chi-Square test. Results: Factors traditional beliefs, family influence were associated with infant feeding practices with PValue < 0,05 and health care location was not associated with infant feeding practices with P-Value = 0.09.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wekadigunawan C. and Amin R. (2019). Environmental Factors on Infant Feeding Practices in Lombok Island – Indonesia.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Health - Volume 1: ICOH, ISBN 978-989-758-454-1, pages 179-183. DOI: 10.5220/0009581101790183

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icoh19,
author={C. Wekadigunawan and Rahmah Amin},
title={Environmental Factors on Infant Feeding Practices in Lombok Island – Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Health - Volume 1: ICOH,},
year={2019},
pages={179-183},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009581101790183},
isbn={978-989-758-454-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Health - Volume 1: ICOH,
TI - Environmental Factors on Infant Feeding Practices in Lombok Island – Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-454-1
AU - Wekadigunawan C.
AU - Amin R.
PY - 2019
SP - 179
EP - 183
DO - 10.5220/0009581101790183