Correlation Among Knowledge, Motivations, and Skills Related to Child Abuse and Socio-demographic Factors in Cali, Colombia.

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional study carried out in Cali households selected via probabilistic sampling, by two-stage clustering. Sociodemographic variables and their relationship with the knowledge, attitudes and practices of the caregivers were analysed.

Results: A total of 519 caregivers were surveyed, most of whom were the mothers of the children.

Factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding practice in a cohort of women from Cali, Colombia.

Introduction: Breastfeeding promotion is one of the most effective strategies to prevent child malnutrition; it reduces costs to families, health services and society. In Colombia, exclusive breastfeeding is practiced only by 10% of women.

Objective: To identify factors associated with the duration of exclusive breastfeeding.

Ecology and policy for exclusive breastfeeding in Colombia: a proposal.

Introduction: Breastfeeding promotion is one of the most important strategies against infant mortality and to control child undernourishment. Despite policies and plans to promote and protect breastfeeding in Colombia, its practice is low and its duration is short.

Objective: To propose an ecology framework to interpret and incorporate contextual, interpersonal, and individual factors associated with the practice of breastfeeding and duration.

[Household costs of maintaining and/or abandoning exclusive breastfeeding during the first postpartum month].

Objective: Estimating the difference between direct and indirect family costs arising from women who continue exclusive breastfeeding and those who abandon it during the first postpartum month.

Methods: A cost analysis was carried out on primiparous women from Cali, Colombia; they were recruited during their immediate puerpery and follow-up during the first 30 postpartum days. Non-parametric Bootstrap techniques were used for estimating average costs and differences for 0-8, 9-30 and 0-30 postpartum days regarding women who abandoned exclusive breastfeeding and those who did not.

Factors predictive of adherence to tuberculosis treatment, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.

Background: Early diagnosis and treatment are fundamental to tuberculosis (TB) control. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of TB management continues to be influenced by treatment adherence.

Objective: To determine which factors are predictive of adherence to TB treatment at the time of diagnosis in Colombia.