Socio-cultural factors for breastfeeding cessation and their relationship with child diarrhoea in the rural high-altitude Peruvian Andes – a qualitative study

Table 1 Household, demographic, and wealth characteristics of women participants and their children

	N	N (%)/Mean (SD)/Median (IQR)
Household characteristics	40
Adobe wall type		36 (90.0)
Earthen floor type		35 (87.5)
Roof tile type		33 (82.5)
Electricity		31 (77.5)
Number of rooms		2.5 (1.0)
Demographic characteristics	40
Number of inhabitants per household		4.7 (1.4)
Civil status (married/civil partnership)		34 (85.0)
Maternal age (years)		28.1 (8.1)
Maternal years of schooling^a		6.0 (3.8)
Primary maternal occupation (housework)		39 (97.5)
Secondary maternal occupation (self-employed)		22 (55.0)
Number of children per woman		2 (1, 3)
Child age (years)^b		1.8 (0.5)
Breastfeeding cessation^b		22 (55.0)
Before the child reached two years	21	18 (85.7)
Wealth classification^c	40
1. Quintile (lowest)		8 (20.0)
2. Quintile		8 (20.0)
3. Quintile		8 (20.0)
4. Quintile		9 (22.5)
5. Quintile (highest)		7 (17.5)

^aIncludes primary (1-6 years) and secondary (7-12 years) education. For higher degrees, we considered: higher (not university) education not completed (12.5 years), higher (not-university) education completed (14 years), university education not completed (13.5 years) and university education completed (16 years)
^bInformation collected at the time of study, six months after IHIP-2 baseline. It refers to mothers/children participating in IHIP-2
^cCalculated using the nationally validated Young Lives wealth index [41]

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