Factors related to Exclusive Breastfeeding in Babies born in a child-friendly hospital in a capital of Northern Brazil

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to know the factors related to Exclusive Breastfeeding in Infants born in a child-friendly hospital in the city of Belém, Pará State capital, and to verify whether the scores of the Self-Efficacy Scale in Breastfeeding were among those factors. We studied 414 mother-baby binomials which babies were born in 2016. Socioeconomic and obstetrical questionnaires applied the Self-Efficacy Scale in Breastfeeding to mothers at their hospital discharge. The breastfeeding score mean was 61 points; 32.45% of the mothers were between 19 and 23 years old; 36.56% of them had a high school diploma; 43.34% received up to a minimum wage; 62.95% lived an informal union with their partners; and 17.92% were employed. The factors related to exclusive breastfeeding involved the mother age and schooling, the fact that the mother is employed, her marital status, the partner incentive to breastfeeding, and the self-efficacy scale score.