Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of HIV Positive Mothers on Antiretroviral Treatment towards Infant Feeding in Gondar Town Health Institutions, North West Ethiopia, 2017
Table 3
Knowledge of HIV positive mothers attending ART in Gondar town health institutions, northwest Ethiopia, 2017(n=402).
Variables
Frequency
Percent
Overall knowledge level
Good Knowledge
277
68.91
Poor knowledge
125
31.09
HIV transmitted through pregnancy, labor and breastfeeding
Yes
218
54.2
No
184
45.8
Does HIV mother transmit the virus to her baby during labor
Yes
205
50.99
No
155
38.56
Don’t know
42
10.45
Does HIV mother transmit the virus to her baby during pregnancy
Yes
177
44.03
No
180
44.78
Don’t know
45
11.19
Does breast milk prevent childhood illness
Yes
281
69.90
No
50
12.44
Don’t know
71
17.66
Feeding only breast milk in the first six months helps boost the child immunity
Yes
292
72.64
No
76
18.91
Don’t know
34
8.45
Is it important to initiate breastfeeding within one hour after birth?
Yes
267
66.42
No
60
14.93
Don’t know
75
18.65
Can exclusive breastfeeding reduce the risk of diarrhea?
Yes
129
32.09
No
144
35.82
Don’t know
129
32.09
Growth patterns of exclusively breastfed infant/s differ from nonexclusively breastfed?
Yes
288
71.64
No
47
11.69
Don’t know
67
16.67
How long should exclusive breastfeeding be continued?
