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    KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE ON EXCLUSIVE BREAST FEEDING AMONG LACTATING MOTHERS IN WORABE TOWN, SILTE ZONE, SNNPR, ETHIOPIA,2021.
    (WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2021-05) ADANE NIGUSE; BEWUKET AYOU; SINHARA TEKLU,
    Background: Exclusive breast feeding is the best nutrition for the children during the first six month of life. Breast milk is not only an ideal nutrition for the infant, but also can protect against some diseases. Breastfeeding contributes to reduced infant morbidity and mortality due to diarrhea, respiratory or ear infections and other infectious diseases even though it remains a challenging due to lack of knowledge of mothers. Ethiopian Health Sector Transformation Plan had planned to increase the proportion of exclusive breast feeding to 70% by the end of 2020 and WHO recommendation is 90%, but only 59%mothers breast feed exclusively according toEDHS 2019.Eventhough information regarding KAP on exclusive breast feeding is very crucial, there is very little article done on this topic in our country. So our research was try to add information about exclusive breastfeeding. Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards exclusive breastfeeding among mothers of 6-12 months of children in Worabe town, Ethiopia from june to july,2021. Methods: Community based cross-sectional study was conducted among 409 lactating mothers who have children aged from 6-12month in Worabe town, Silte zone, SNNPR June to July, 2021 using interviewer administered structured questionnaire, systematically selected study participants were interviewed and data was inserted to SPSS version 25.0. Result: from those mothers participated in this study, 55.3% were knowledgeable about exclusive breastfeeding and their source of information were health workers 282 (74.2%), schools 35 (9.2%) and TV 20 (5.3%). More than half of respondents, 52.4% have favorable attitude towards exclusive breast feeding. Regarding practice of mothers on the first milk (colostrum’s), 285 (75%) said colostrum’s should not be discarded,95 (25%)said the first milk should be discarded i.e. not important to child health. From all study participants, 60.3% practiced exclusive breast feeding. Almost all mothers 373(98.2%) breastfeed their children and from those 269 (70.8%) mothers started breast feeding within an hour after deliver Conclusion: This study identified that EBF prevalence was 60.3% and there are low knowledge and attitude toward EBF when compared with WHO recommendation i.e. 90%. In our study, recommended duration ofEBF and timely initiation of complementary feeding still not enough, it is low. Regarding to attitude of our study participants, attitude towards colostrum is not favorable. Regarding to the practice of EBF in our study, even if, it is higher than EDHS prevalence of EBF and study in other area, it is not enough and should be practiced more. The finding of this study highly inform policy makers and health care providers to direct their efforts to provide evidence based information and recommendations on the benefit of breast feeding to promote EBF