Early weaning determinants in a district of Campinas, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: de Almeida VOLPINI, Cíntia Cristina
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: MOURA, Erly Catarina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Nutrição
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/nutricao/article/view/9832
• topic: breast feeding; child welfire; early weaning; milk human; aleitamento materno; bem-estar da criança; desmame precoce; leite humano

ObjectiveTo investigate determinants of early weaning in Northwest of Campinas, Sao Paulo state, Brazil. MethodsDuring the National Immunization Day on June 8th, 2001, a survey was conducted among 385 children lessthan 2 years old (10% of attendance). The responsible for the child was interviewed about social, demographic,and health assistance characteristics, age, and reasons for the introduction of other foods to the child and itsweaning. The complete interruption of breast-feeding before the age of 6 months was considered as earlyweaning. The associations between weaning and cause and/or risk factors were investigated by bivariatecorrelation. To check if the association was maintained, logistic regression was run to identify the bestpredictors for early weaning. The proportions’ difference test was performed to identify alleged reasons forearly weaning. ResultsEarly weaning affected 63.6% of the surveyed children. The education level of the mother was associated toearly weaning, according to t-test (p = 0.04). There was no association between early weaning and mother’sage, marital status or occupation, family density, income, kind of health assistance, and gender of the child.Logistic regression indicated time of artificial milk or formula introduction as predictor for early weaning(p<0.0001). The alleged reasons for early weaning were: decrease of maternal milk production, baby’s refusalto breast-feed, mother’s occupation, pain during breast-feeding, breast injuries, and sickness of either motheror baby. ConclusionThe results indicated the early introduction of milk or formulas as a predictor for early weaning.