BACKGROUND Employed women tend to exclusively breastfeed less than non-employed women. Early returning to work has been major reason why employed women stop exclusive breastfeeding. The aim of this study was to investigate exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) cessation and associated factors among employed mothers in Dukem town, Central Ethiopia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted from February to March 2015 using total sample of 313 randomly selected permanently employed women. Information regarding participants' work-related factors, health service and sociodemographic factors were collected by face to face interview using structured questionnaire. Data were checked for completeness, entered and analyzed by SPSS version 20. Binary logistic regression was done to identify factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding cessation. The strength of association was measured using odds ratio with 95% confidence intervals. RESULTS Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding cessation was 75.7% (95% CI 71.0, 80.5%). Having a short duration of maternity leave (AOR 9.3; 95% CI 3.8, 23), being a full time employee (AOR 3.5; 95% CI 1.7, 11), being private organization employee (AOR=2.1, 95% CI(1, 4.3)), lack of flexible work time (AOR 3.0; 95% CI 1.2, 7.5), not pumping breast milk (AOR 4.3; 95% CI 1.7, 11), lack of a lactation break (AOR 6.7; 95% CI 3,14.5) and work place far away from her child (AOR 3.1; 95% CI 3.1, 6.3), were significantly associated with cessation of EBF among employed mothers. CONCLUSION Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding cessation was much higher than the international and national expectation. The concerned governmental bodies should consider improving the legislation of the 3 months postpartum maternity leave to reduce employed mother's exclusive breastfeeding cessation.

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埃塞俄比亚中部杜克姆镇受雇母亲的纯母乳喂养停止及其相关因素。

背景技术与非就业妇女相比，就业妇女往往仅靠母乳喂养较少。早日重返工作是受雇妇女停止纯母乳喂养的主要原因。这项研究的目的是调查埃塞俄比亚中部杜克姆镇受雇母亲的纯母乳喂养（EBF）戒断和相关因素。方法采用2015年2月至2015年3月进行的横断面研究，使用313名随机选择的长期雇用妇女的总样本。使用结构化问卷通过面对面访谈收集有关参与者工作相关因素，健康服务和社会人口统计学因素的信息。检查数据的完整性，并通过SPSS版本20进行输入和分析。进行二元逻辑回归分析，以识别与完全母乳喂养停止有关的因素。关联强度是使用具有95％置信区间的比值比测量的。结果完全母乳喂养停止的患病率为75.7％（95％CI 71.0，80.5％）。产假较短（AOR 9.3; 95％CI 3.8，23），是全职雇员（AOR 3.5; 95％CI 1.7，11），是私人组织雇员（AOR = 2.1，95％CI（1 ，4.3）），缺乏灵活的工作时间（AOR 3.0; 95％CI 1.2，7.5），不抽乳（AOR 4.3; 95％CI 1.7、11），缺乏泌乳中断（AOR 6.7; 95％CI） 3,14.5）和远离她的孩子的工作地点（AOR 3.1; 95％CI 3.1，6.3）与受雇母亲的EBF停止显着相关。结论完全停止母乳喂养的发生率远远高于国际和国家的预期。