title: Breast-feeding practices in Schedule Caste communities in Haryana state.
abstract: A study was conducted to assess exclusive breast-feeding, continued breast-feeding, bottle-feeding, predominant breast-feeding, timely complementary feeding and other breast-feeding practices in 818 children in the age group of 0-3 years belonging to the Schedule Caste communities of Haryana. The exclusive breast-feeding rate was 0.15 and the predominant breast-feeding rate 0.75 in children < 4 months. Timely complementary feeding rate was 0.42. The continued breast-feeding rate at 1 year and 2 years was 0.84 and 0.58, respectively. The bottle-feeding rate, ever breast-fed rate, timely first-suckling rate and exclusive breast-feeding rate by mother were 0.09, 1.0, 0.0 and 0.15, respectively. The median duration of breast-feeding was 16 months.
authors.affiliation: Human Nutrition Unit, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kapil
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Narula
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nayar
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Sachdev
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gnanasekaran
mesh_terms: D001903:Bottle Feeding / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001942:Breast Feeding / Q000208:ethnology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007225:Infant Food / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011203:Poverty; D013997:Time Factors; D014886:Weaning