Attitude of Married Female Students towards Infants Breastfeeding in South-West Colleges of Education

Abstract

This study investigated, into the attitude of married female students towards infants breastfeeding  in South West Colleges of Education. The study employed descriptive survey research design. The population for the study included all the married female students in colleges of education in the South-West geo-political zone in Nigeria. 100 married female students were selected for the study, using multistage sampling technique. Simple Random sampling technique was used to select four Colleges of Education in South West Nigeria and purposive sampling technique was used to select only the married female students. Three research hypotheses were raised and questionnaire was used to collect information from the respondents. All hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significant. The results showed that the age, religious believes and years in marriage were not significantly showing difference in  the attitudes of married female students in colleges of education towards breastfeeding. It was recommended that married women need to be more enlightened on the important of breast milk on the all- round development of their children. Government, through National Orientation Agencies, should aggressively campaign for exclusive breastfeeding of the child within the first six months.