OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to find the association between mothers' working hours and obesity of their children according to children's age and gender. METHODS This study used data from the second and third year of KNHANES IV and the first year in KNHANES V (2008-2010). We calculate odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) by using survey logistic regression to assess associa...

Purpose: To study the attitude of working and homemaker mothers towards TV advertising its effect on their children. Methodology: Self structured questionnaire convenience sampling technique was used for data collection. The Sample comprises 400 (age: 25 to 45 years) children 8 16 years). response generated regarding 32 statements related different aspects measured a five point Likert Scale. Fi...

Differentials in child mortality are analyzed by parent's education, health care, and rural-urban residence with data on 7405 currently married women, obtained from the Pakistan Contraceptive Prevalence Survey, 1984-85. The assumption is that educated parents and fathers working in the formal sector have less risks of child mortality than illiterates and those working in the traditional sector...

B A C K G R O U N D : Culture, beliefs and practices, mother’s employment, and increasing modernization are linked to breastfeeding. In Pakistan, some false beliefs and practices interfere with breastfeeding even among nurses. This led to the development of this study with the focus on nurses’ breastfeeding experiences since nurses constitute the major workforce in any health care setting and m...

BACKGROUND Studies have shown that the growth status of the children with working mothers is about 2 standard deviations lower than that of the children of housewife mothers. It seems that absence of mothers in the second stage of nutritional evolution (attachment), which is a very sensitive stage, has an important role in initiating and continuation of an appropriate supplemental feeding. MA...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Exclusive breastfeeding provides many benefits to both infants and mothers. Despite the introduction of laws aimed at protecting the practice of exclusive breastfeeding, the coverage of exclusive breastfeeding remains low, particularly for working mothers. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN This crosssectional study recruited working mothers employed in medium and large compan...