1Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia, 60112
*Corresponding Author: Rian Diana, Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia, 60112 Email: rian.diana@fkm.unair.ac.id
Online published on 20 March, 2019.
Low prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding was found in Indonesia. Risk factors for suboptimal exclusive breastfeeding were internal and external factors. Knowledge and attitude of mother are internal factors that can affect exclusive breastfeeding practice. This study aims to analyze mother's knowledge, attitude, and practice of exclusive breastfeeding.
This cross sectional study was done in September-December 2017, 330 mothers who have children under five in Surabaya and Sidoarjo were participated and selected with simple random sampling. The association between knowledge, attitude, and practice were analyzed by Chi Square.
More than half (52.7%) of mothers have a moderate knowledge about exclusive breastfeeding. Half mothers have a positive attitude toward exclusive breastfeeding. Negative attitude to the statements; breast milk can be replace by infant formula and working mothers can easily give exclusive breastfeeding. As much as 47.6% mothers had an exclusive breastfeeding. There were association between knowledge (p=0.003) and attitude (p=0.000) with exclusive breastfeeding practice.
Mothers with good knowledge and positive attitude have a good practice of exclusive breastfeeding to prevent stunting in the future life.
Attitude, children under five, exclusive breastfeeding, knowledge, practice
