The purpose of this paper is to research the feeding methods of infants and its influencing factors.
The survey was performed from 1 May to 31 June, 1988 in three general hospitals and four private hospitals in Taejeon, and checked the feeding methods of the new borns and infants.
The questionaire was composed of following items; sex, age, weight of delivery time, and influencing factors and reason of choosing the feeding method. The total number of the cases was 471.
The results are as follows；
1. Feeding method
Feeding method was consisted of breast feeding 45.1％, artificial feeding 41.6％ and mixed feeding 12.7％.
2. Sex, age, and birth weight.
61％ of infants was male and 38.9％ was female. The distribution of age showed little difference. In the infants´s weight of delivery time, 45.9％ of them weighed 3.Okg 3.4kg.
3. Parents´ age
74.9％ of the fathers were 30-39 years old and 62.5％ of the mothers were 20-29. The younger the fathers were, the more the breast feeding methods were chosen. (P<0.05)
4. The Educational level
In fathers´ group, above junior college graduates were 49.3％, middle or high school graduates were 48.4％, In mothers´ group, middle or high school graduates were 69.4％. In considering both group, most of the above junior college graduates chose the artificial feeding method. (P< 0.001)
5. Occupation
In fathers´ group, office worker was 54.8％, skilled job 12.7％ and managerial job 10.9％, respectively. In mothers´ group, 8.9％ of them had occupation. There was a statistical significance(P<0.001).
6. Delivery type
Normal delivery was 76.9％ of them. cesarean section was 19.3％, and the induction was 3.8％ In the normal delivery group, many chose the breast feeding method. In the Cesarean section group as well as the induction group, many chose the artificial feeding method. (P<0.05)
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