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Publication Association Between Mother’s Age and Breastfeeding Status in the Northern Iran(Nepal Paediatric Society (JNPS), 2015) Veghari, GAbstract: Introduction: Breast milk provides the ideal nutrition for infant and it is more easily digested than infant formula. The main aim of this study is to determine breastfeeding status, exclusive breastfeeding, and their relation with mother’s age among under-five children in the north of Iran. Material and Methods: This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study, which was carried out in 1997 persons (535 = Fars-native, 773 = Turkman and 689 = Sisstani) from 20 villages in the north of Iran. The calculated sample sizes of 1800 respondents at least were needed for a 95% confidence and a maximum marginal error 0.02. Exclusive Breastfeeding Duration (EBFD) and Breastfeeding Duration (BFD) were classified based on WHO definitions. Results: BFD is 20.16 months and statistical difference is significant among three ethnic groups (p=0.001). Post hoc test are significant between Fars-native and Turkman (p=0.001), and between Turkman and Sisstani (p=0.002) and between Fars-native and Sisstani (p=0.024). EBFD is 5.77 months and statistical difference is significant among three ethnic groups (p=0.011). Post hoc test is significant between Turkman and Sisstani (p=0.027). As whole, duration of breastfeeding positively increased with mother’s age (p=0.002) but statistical association was not significant between exclusive breastfeeding duration and mother’s age. Conclusion: In rural area in the north of Iran, the EBFD and BFD were 5.74 and 20.16 months, respectively and they were in Turkman group more than in others. Mother’s age have a rising role for EBFD and BFD whereas in all of ethnic groups it was not the same.Publication The Study of Breastfeeding Knowledge among Northern Iranian Teachers(Nepal Paediatric Society (JNPS), 2011) Veghari, G; Mansourian, AAbstract: Introduction: Breastfeeding provides all essential nutrients for the first 6 months of life and plays an important role in ensuring health in neonates and mothers. This study was carried out among northern Iranian primary school teachers to determine the knowledge about breastfeeding. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive-crossectional study and where 745 subjects were chosen by random and cluster sampling. Data was collected by questionnaire about social-demographic and the optimal food awareness at fist 6 months of age. Data was analyzed by SPSS win soft-war. Chi-2 test was used to compare groups. Results: Teacher's knowledge about exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding with breast milk substitutes as the best diet was 81.6% and 17.6%, respectively. There was no statistical difference between the teachers who were non-university graduates (78.0%) or those who were university graduates (83.3%). The knowledge of breastfeeding among Turkman and Non-Turkman was 85.1% and 80.2% and male to female was 80.6% and 82.6%, respectively. There were no statistical differences between these variables. Conclusion: The teacher's knowledge about advantages of breastfeeding was low and that it was influenced by social-economic factors. Further studies need to be carried out in this area for determining the difficulties of breastfeeding.