Artificial Milk Feeding: Women View Of Their Feeding Choice In Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River State, Nigeria.

ABSTRACTThis study was aimed at ascertaining the views of women from Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria on their choice to feed their infants artificial milk. Descriptive cross-section design was used. A total sample size of 172 women was used for the study. A self-developed structured questionnaire with reliability of 89.5 was used for data collection. The data obtained from the questionnaire were subjected to descriptive and Chi-square(X2) statistics testing at 0.05 level of significance. Major findings of the study revealed that the knowledge of breastfeeding was gen…