THERE HAS BEEN AN INCREASE IN PRETERM (PT) BIRTHS IN WESTERN COUNTRIES IN RECENT YEARS, WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOW-BIRTHWEIGHT (LBW) CHILDREN. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MATERNAL FACTORS AND PT AND LBW CHILEAN NEWBORNS. METHODS: THIS WAS AN ANALYTICAL CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY OF A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF 903,847 NEWBORNS AND THEIR MOTHERS. THE NEWBORN GESTATIONAL AGE, BIRTH WEIGHT, MATERNAL AGE, MARITAL STATUS, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT SITUATION, AND RESIDENCE WERE ANALYZED. A MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL WAS APPLIED (? = 0.05) (STATA V.15). THE PREVALENCE WAS 6.8% AND 5.0% FOR PT AND LBW, RESPECTIVELY. THE PROBABILITY OF THE NEWBORNS BEING PT AND LBW WAS 1.18 AND 1.22 TIMES IF THEIR MOTHERS HAD

THERE IS LIMITED KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING FACTORS THAT AFFECT NON-EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING (NEBF) PRACTICES IN IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS, ESPECIALLY IN LATIN AMERICA. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PRESENT STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MATERNAL FACTORS AND THE PREVALENCE OF NEBF IN HAITIAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN SOUTHERN CHILE. THIS WAS AN ANALYTICAL CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY. THE PROBABILISTIC SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 173 HAITIAN WOMEN WHO GAVE INFORMED CONSENT. SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND DIETARY-NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION WAS COLLECTED FROM ALL PARTICIPANTS. BIVARIATE (?2) AND MULTIVARIATE (LOGISTIC REGRESSION) INFERENTIAL STATISTICS WERE APPLIED. ALL ANALYSES WERE PERFORMED WITH THE STATA 16.0 STATISTICAL SOFTWARE, AND THE SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL WAS ESTABLISHED AS ? < 0.05. THE PREVALENCE OF EBF AT 6 MO WAS 54.3%. MATERNAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH A LOWER PREVALENCE OF EBF WERE NOT HAVING PERMANENT RESIDENCY (OR: 2.34, CI: 2.18?2.83), RESIDENCY

THERE IS LIMITED KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING FACTORS THAT AFFECT NON-EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING (NEBF) PRACTICES IN IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS, ESPECIALLY IN LATIN AMERICA. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PRESENT STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MATERNAL FACTORS AND THE PREVALENCE OF NEBF IN HAITIAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN SOUTHERN CHILE. THIS WAS AN ANALYTICAL CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY. THE PROBABILISTIC SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 173 HAITIAN WOMEN WHO GAVE INFORMED CONSENT. SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND DIETARY-NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION WAS COLLECTED FROM ALL PARTICIPANTS. BIVARIATE (?2) AND MULTIVARIATE (LOGISTIC REGRESSION) INFERENTIAL STATISTICS WERE APPLIED. ALL ANALYSES WERE PERFORMED WITH THE STATA 16.0 STATISTICAL SOFTWARE, AND THE SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL WAS ESTABLISHED AS ? < 0.05. THE PREVALENCE OF EBF AT 6 MO WAS 54.3%. MATERNAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH A LOWER PREVALENCE OF EBF WERE NOT HAVING PERMANENT RESIDENCY (OR: 2.34, CI: 2.18-2.83), RESIDENCY