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 throughoutthe entire life span. Especially Pregnancy is a time of increased energy and nutrient needs for awoman in order to meet the needs of the growing fetus and of maternal tissues associated withpregnancy. However, little has been explored about nutritional knowledge, attitudes and practicesamong pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Therefore; thisstudy was conducted to describe the nutritional knowledge, attitudes and practices amongpregnant women attended selected public hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Objective: The objective of this research was to assess Knowledge, Attitudes and Practicesregarding maternal nutrition among pregnant women attending Antenatal care (ANC) clinics inselected Public Hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2015.
Methods and Materials: An institutional based cross sectional study was complemented tocollect relevant data among 322 pregnant women attended ANC clinics in selected publicHospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A simple random sampling procedure was used to selectpublic Hospitals and systematic sampling was used to select pregnant mothers using the hospitalsregistration list. The data was collected with Interview using a pre tested semi- structuredquestionnaire from April to May, 2015
Result: The data were analyzed using SPSS version 21. Multiple logistic regressions were run toassess factors that were associated with the dependent variables at P< 0.05 and to control theconfounders. 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 ofnutrition during pregnancy. There was a positive significant association between educationalstatus of women, family income, attitude, number of pregnancies and nutrition knowledge duringpregnancy. Knowledge had positive significant association with attitude of respondents towardsnutrition during pregnancy. Knowledge, family income, husband education and occupation had apositive association with good practices of nutrition during pregnancy
Conclusion and Recomendation: The knowledge, attitude and practices of nutrition duringpregnancy were relatively low in the study area. The government and the concerned bodiesshould focus on education and to eradicate poverty.
Keywords: Knowledge; Attitude; Practice; Nutrition; Malnutrition; Pregnancy
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Knowledge Attitude Pract Nutrition Malnutrition