Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Maternal Nutrition Among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care Clinics In Public Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2015
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Nutrition is a fundamental pillar of human life, health and development throughout
the entire life span. Especially Pregnancy is a time of increased energy and nutrient needs for a
woman in order to meet the needs of the growing fetus and of maternal tissues associated with
pregnancy. However, little has been explored about nutritional knowledge, attitudes and practices
among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Therefore; this
study was conducted to describe the nutritional knowledge, attitudes and practices among
pregnant women attended selected public hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Objective: The objective of this research was to assess Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices
regarding maternal nutrition among pregnant women attending Antenatal care (ANC) clinics in
selected Public Hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2015.
Methods and Materials: An institutional based cross sectional study was complemented to
collect relevant data among 322 pregnant women attended ANC clinics in selected public
Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A simple random sampling procedure was used to select
public Hospitals and systematic sampling was used to select pregnant mothers using the hospitals
registration list. The data was collected with Interview using a pre tested semi- structured
questionnaire from April to May, 2015
Result: The data were analyzed using SPSS version 21. Multiple logistic regressions were run to
assess factors that were associated with the dependent variables at P< 0.05 and to control the
confounders. This study revealed that among 322 pregnant women only 87(27%), 156(48.4%)
and 111(34.5%) of pregnant women had knowledge, favorable attitude and good practices of
nutrition during pregnancy. There was a positive significant association between educational
status of women, family income, attitude, number of pregnancies and nutrition knowledge during
pregnancy. Knowledge had positive significant association with attitude of respondents towards
nutrition during pregnancy. Knowledge, family income, husband education and occupation had a
positive association with good practices of nutrition during pregnancy
Conclusion and Recomendation: The knowledge, attitude and practices of nutrition during
pregnancy were relatively low in the study area. The government and the concerned bodies
should focus on education and to eradicate poverty.
Keywords: Knowledge; Attitude; Practice; Nutrition; Malnutrition; Pregnancy
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Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Nutrition, Malnutrition