Communication And Exclusive Breastfeeding Among Nursing Mothers A Case Study Of 445 Nigerian Air Force Base Hospital Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria

📄 Project Abstract

In Nigeria, there has been an increasing level of awareness campaign on exclusive breastfeeding (EBF), but knowledge about EBF is relatively low even in cosmopolitan cities like Lagos perhaps because of ineffective communication of the message of EBF, which in turn affects its practice. Therefore, this study sought to examine the communication strategies deployed by NAF Hospital in sustaining breastfeeding practice among nursing mothers at 445 Nigerian Air Force Base Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria with the following objectives: (i) ascertain the role of communication to nursing mothers on infant and maternal health within the study location, (ii) to identify the constraints of communicating exclusive breastfeeding among nursing mothers and (iii) to examine effective ways of communicating and sustaining exclusive breastfeeding practice amongst nursing mothers in the study location. It deployed Health Belief Model as the Theoretical Framework. The study further deployed the use of quantitat...