Mohamed Izzad Isahak, Muhammad Safwan Abdullah, Raflis Ruzairee Awang, Nor Faezan Abdul Rashid, Seniyah Md Sikin, Shahrun Niza Abdullah Suhaimi, Norlia Abdullah, Rohaizak Muhammad, Nani Harlina Md Latar
Haemoblock hemostatic substance in reducing seroma formation post axillary lymph node dissection following breast conserving surgery
World journal of surgery
despite strategies recommendations complementary feeding initiation applied globally mothers initiated complementary feeding infants time low previous works literatures identified effect parity time initiate complementary feeding particularly evidences regarding ethiopia scanty therefore study aimed identify effect parity time initiate complementary feeding among motherinfants pairs northwest ethiopia communitybased prospective cohort study carried among 732 primipara 1464 multipara mothers live birth northwest ethiopia data collected using kobo collect software start monthly bases end follow period parity exposure variable confounders analyzed using cox proportional hazard regression kaplanmeier survival curve schoenfeld residuals global test pvalue 04861 performed hazard ratio hr 95 confidence intervals ci used declare statistical significance predictors overall incidence rate initiation complementary feeding among primipara multipara mothers 1627 95ci 1504 1761 1330 95ci 1253 1412 person months observations respectively median time initiate complementary feeding among primipara multipara mothers infants 5 6 months respectively primipara mothers 30 higher rate initiate complementary feeding early ahr 130 95ci 117 143 age 15 24 2534 years ahr 169 95ci 136 209 ahr 145 95ci 117 181 birth type twin ahr 129 95ci 102 164 statistically significant predictors time initiate complementary feeding parity identified statistically significant predictor time initiate complementary feeding incidence rate early late initiation complementary feeding higher among primipara multipara mothers besides median time initiate complementary feeding earlier among primipara multipara mothers parity based complementary feeding practice education advocated tackle gap reduce infants children malnutrition relatively younger age twin delivered mothers initiated complementary feeding recommendation therefore intervention considering statistically significant predictors could public health importance