Author:

• Sabrina Sales Lins de Albuquerque - Albuquerque, SSL - Universidade Federal da Paraíba - <dralessandro@ibest.com.br>

Thematic Area:

Não Categorizado

Abstract:

This study to verify the relationship between nonnutritive sucking habits and feeding methods, in children from 12 to 36 months of age, attending public nursery schools in the city of João Pessoa/PB. The sample consisted of 292 children of both gender and the data were collected by interviewing the children’s mothers or minders. The informations of the forms consisted of the description of the frequency and duration of the nonnutritive sucking habits, as well as of the feeding methods. The data were analyzed through the statistical program SPSS, taking place distributions of frequencies and Qui-square test and Fisher Exact. With relationship to the presence of nonnutritive sucking habits, 69.2% of the children had some type of habit, being 61.6% the pacifier sucking and 8.2% the digital sucking. From the entire sample, 10.2% presented exclusive breastfeeding, 4.9% were just bottle-fed and 84.9% were breast-fed and bottle-fed. Considering the methods of feeding, 83.8% of the children presented exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months of life. The feeding methods presented significant association with the presence of nonnutritive sucking habits. As larger the duration of the exclusive breastfeeding, smaller the prevalence of sucking habits.
Breast feeding; Habits, Bottle feeding.

Content:

Access Issue in Scielo

Other languages: