Introduction. To assess knowledge and attitude towards exclusive breast feeding among mothers attending antenatal care and\nimmunization clinic inDabatHealth Center,Northwest Ethiopia, 2016. Methodology. Institutional based descriptive cross-sectional\nstudy was conducted. The data was collected by using pretested, structured interview based questionnaires. The data were entered\nand analyzed using SPSS version 20. Result. A total of 384 participants were included in the study with a response rate of 100%. The\nmajority were in the age groups of 20ââ?¬â??30 (66.9%) and the mean age was 27.65; 325 (84.6%) were Orthodox Christianity followers.\nMajority were of Amhara ethnicity 370 (96.4%). Based on knowledge score, 268 (69.8%) were grouped as having good knowledge\nand regarding attitudinal score, 92 (24%) of the study participants were categorized as having negative attitude towards exclusive\nbreast feeding (EBF) and the remaining 292 (76%) were categorized as having positive attitude. Conclusion. In this study, the\nknowledge of study participant mothers towards EBF is low which is less than three-fourths; however positive attitude towards\nEBF is more than three-fourths in this study. The authors recommend that health care workers who work in the areas of maternal\nand child health clinic should give appropriate information about EBF.
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