Breastfeeding in Bolivia – information and attitudes

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Table 4 Attitudes towards breastfeeding on the part of the mother, the infant's father and grandmother, and the mother's sister/brother

	Prelacteal	Adj Prelact	Colostrum	Adj Colostr	Excl Bf†	Adj Excl Bf†	Any Bf	Adj any Bf	On demand	Adj On demand
Attitude in
	502	448	488	436	177/492	156/439	216	199	461	413
Mother*	1.01; 0.63–1.62	1.04; 0.61–1.79	0.87; 0.35–2.14	0.98; 0.46–2.10	1.19; 0.95–1.48	1.05; 0.81–1.36	-1.02; -3.34, 1.31	-0.03; -2.60, 2.54	1.28; 0.70–2.34	0.94; 0.57–1.55
	446	401	435	391	160/439	144/394	209	183	408	369
Father #	0.56; 0.21–1.45	0.58; 0.21–1.64	0.85, 0.11–6.62	0.48; 0.06–4.14	0.99; 0.58–1.69	0.89; 0.49–1.62	-0.35; -5.00, 4.31	0.19; -4.75, 5.13	0.26; 0.034–1.95	0.27; 0.035–2.18
	447	400	435	389	158/438	139/391	193	176	409	367
Grandmother #	0.61; 0.29–1.31	0.67; 0.30–1.50	1.52; 0.43–5.36	0.96; 0.21–4.54	0.91, 0.61–1.36	0.86; 0.56–1.30	-1.05; -5.02, 2.92	-0.68; -4.78, 3.42	0.92; 0.37–2.28	1.17; 0.45–3.02
	447	404	435	393	151/438	136/395	197	182	412	374
Sister #	1.00; 0.51–1.97	1.08; 0.52–2.21	2.57; 1.01–6.50π	2.05; 0.74–5.68	0.83; 0.60–1.15	0.78; 0.55–1.09	0.97; -2.24, 4.18	0.89; -2.46, 4.25	0.99; 0.47–2.06	1.15; 0.53–2.49

Adj = Adjusted value. No crude values are presented. All values have been corrected for residence (urban vs. rural), ethnicity (Latin vs. non-Latin), work (work vs. no work of the mother), education (≤ 5 years of education vs. >5 years of education) Bf = Breastfeeding Excl = Exclusive, for definition see text. Odds/Hazard ratios with 95% confidence intervals are given for all outcome measures except for "any breastfeeding" where values indicate differences in duration in months. * In all analyses of maternal attitude and feeding pattern, the attitudes "good" (n = 272) and "neutral" (n = 1) were collapsed into one group and then compared with " very good" (n = 229).# Reported attitudes towards breastfeeding have been dichotomized into "positive" vs. "indifferent, negative, the mother reported not knowing the attitude". † Indicates the number of censored/total observations. Hazard ratios > 1 indicate longer exclusive breastfeeding duration (usually hazard ratios in survival analyses indicate an increased risk of "death", i.e. short time to endpoint, but in this case transformations have been carried out to make data easier to interpret for the reader.). π p = 0.0468

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