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| Title |
Prevalence and predictors of exclusive breastfeeding among women in Kigoma region, Western Tanzania: a community based cross-sectional study
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| Published in |
International Breastfeeding Journal, November 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1746-4358-6-17 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tiras Eshton Nkala, Sia Emmanueli Msuya |
| Abstract |
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first six months of infants' lives is a cost effective intervention in saving children's lives and can avert 13 - 15% of the 9 million deaths of children under 5 years old in resource poor settings. However, EBF rates have been shown to be low in resource poor settings, ranging between 20 and 40%. In Tanzania, the prevalence of EBF among infants under 6 months is 41%, with limited information on predictors of EBF. The aim of the study was to determine prevalence of EBF and its predictors in Kigoma Municipality, Western Tanzania. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 337 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Jordan | 1 | <1% |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 334 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 72 | 21% |
| Student > Bachelor | 58 | 17% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 31 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 5% |
| Researcher | 14 | 4% |
| Other | 46 | 14% |
| Unknown | 99 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 95 | 28% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 68 | 20% |
| Social Sciences | 31 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 2% |
| Arts and Humanities | 5 | 1% |
| Other | 25 | 7% |
| Unknown | 105 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 December 2011.
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#16,720,137
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Outputs from International Breastfeeding Journal
#457
of 608 outputs
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#104,596
of 155,011 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Breastfeeding Journal
#5
of 7 outputs
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