253191 Current breastfeeding practices of Ghanaian women within the Greater Accra area: A survey

Monday, October 31, 2011

Kathleen Rosenbaum , School of Science & Health, Department of Public & Community Health, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
A survey that consists of 16 questions regarding current breastfeeding practices of Ghanaian women is in the process of being verbally administered to approximately 100-150 Ghanaian women throughout the Greater Accra region. The survey contains five questions that ask about the participants' prenatal health experience. Six questions follow asking multiple choice questions about their personal feeding habits. The last five questions ask about where they learned about breastfeeding, challenges they have had with breastfeeding, and the successes they have experience with breastfeeding. Answered surveys will tell if the number of children a woman has, her marital status upon child delivery, and her husband's support affects her breastfeeding practices. The survey is intended to give a general understanding of the current breastfeeding practices of Ghanaian women. The information collected will be used to create a breastfeeding education program to be implemented within the Greater Accra area with the intention of increasing exclusive breastfeeding duration while being culturally sensitive while contributing to improving maternal and child health throughout the Greater Accra area.

Learning Areas:
Diversity and culture
Public health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
1. Name the most common foods Ghanaian women within the Greater Accra area eat before, during, and after pregnancy. 2. Assess if the age at which they had their first child & the number of children a woman has impacts her breastfeeding practices. 3.Identify where women are receiving their knowledge of breastfeeding practices. 4.Identify barriers that prevent Ghanaian women, within the Greater Accra area, to start or continue with breastfeeding. 5. List things that have encouraged Ghanaian women to start or continue with breastfeeding. 6. Describe the overall current breastfeeding practices of Ghanaian women within the Greater Accra area.

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Community Research

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified to be an abstract Author on the content I am responsible for because I personally created, verified, and administered the breastfeeindg survey entitled, Breastfeeding Practices of Ghanaian Women, as a health educator in the Greater Accra area.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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