Research Article
Attitudes and Barriers to Breastfeeding among Mothers in Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Table 1
Distribution of participants by sociodemographic characteristics (n = 400).
| Category | Subcategory | n (%) |
| Age (years) | 20–30 | 118 (29.5) | 31–40 | 199 (49.8) | >40 | 83 (20.8) |
| Nationality | Saudi | 351 (87.8) | Non-Saudi | 49 (12.2) |
| Marital status | Married | 371 (92.8) | Widow/divorced | 29 (7.2) |
| Level of education | Before college | 67 (16.8) | Bachelor’s degree | 250 (62.5) | Postgraduate | 83 (20.8) |
| Profession | Student | 82 (20.5) | Employee | 247 (61.8) | Faculty member | 71 (17.8) |
| Living | Own house | 162 (40.5) | Rent | 148 (37.0) | Large house | 45 (11.2) | Workplace | 45 (11.2) |
| Income (all sources, all family members) | Not enough but I borrow | 20 (5.0) | Enough | 172 (43.0) | Not enough | 62 (15.5) | Enough and save | 97 (24.2) | I don’t want to answer | 49 (12.2) |
| Payment | Governmental | 208 (52.0) | Private | 103 (25.8) | Health insurance | 89 (22.0) |
| Number of births | One time | 94 (23.5) | Two times | 90 (22.5) | Three times | 74 (18.5) | Four times | 70 (17.5) | >Four times | 72 (18.8) |
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