Browsing General Public Health by Subject "Maternal nutrition during pregnancy has gained attention over the years due to the understanding that there is an increased physiologic, metabolic, and nutritional demand associated with pregnancy. In many traditional societies, cultural norms and customs govern behaviors including during critical life stages like pregnancy. Pregnant women avoid specific foods because of a strong dislike developed following pregnancy, medical grounds, cultural beliefs or impositions. There is limited data regarding the dietary practice and factors associated during pregnancy in Ethiopia in general and specifically in Deder woreda. Objective: This study aims to assess nutritional practices and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care at public health facilities in Deder woreda, Eastern Ethiopia from November 10,2020 to December 15, 2020. Methods Facility-based Cross-sectional study design was conducted on 418 Pregnant women coming for antenatal care service utilization at public health facilities of Deder woreda using structured questionnaire. The calculated sample size was proportionally be allocated to the 4-health center and Deder hospital proportionally was interviewed continuatively. Data was entered in to EpiData 3.1 and exported to statistical package for social science version 20. Binary logistic regression was used to assess the association between each independent variable and the dependent variable. In bi variable analysis covariates with P-value of <0.25 was included in multivariate analysis. The Adjusted Odds Ratio with a 95 % Confidence Interval and p-value of <0.05 was computed to show the strength of the association. Results: Out of 405 pregnant women 418 were interviewed with a response rate of 96.8%. Only 24.7% of pregnant women with 95% CI 0.2074 - 0.2912 had good Nutritional practices. Nutrition Counseling during pregnancy, family wealth index, family size, husband support during pregnancy and age of pregnant woman were independent factors for good dietary practice. Conclusion: The prevalence of good nutritional practice among respondents was very low. The factors associated with nutritional practice were nutrition counseling during ANC, family size wealth index, household food security status, husband support and age of pregnant women"
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Browsing General Public Health by Subject "Maternal nutrition during pregnancy has gained attention over the years due to the understanding that there is an increased physiologic, metabolic, and nutritional demand associated with pregnancy. In many traditional societies, cultural norms and customs govern behaviors including during critical life stages like pregnancy. Pregnant women avoid specific foods because of a strong dislike developed following pregnancy, medical grounds, cultural beliefs or impositions. There is limited data regarding the dietary practice and factors associated during pregnancy in Ethiopia in general and specifically in Deder woreda. Objective: This study aims to assess nutritional practices and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care at public health facilities in Deder woreda, Eastern Ethiopia from November 10,2020 to December 15, 2020. Methods Facility-based Cross-sectional study design was conducted on 418 Pregnant women coming for antenatal care service utilization at public health facilities of Deder woreda using structured questionnaire. The calculated sample size was proportionally be allocated to the 4-health center and Deder hospital proportionally was interviewed continuatively. Data was entered in to EpiData 3.1 and exported to statistical package for social science version 20. Binary logistic regression was used to assess the association between each independent variable and the dependent variable. In bi variable analysis covariates with P-value of <0.25 was included in multivariate analysis. The Adjusted Odds Ratio with a 95 % Confidence Interval and p-value of <0.05 was computed to show the strength of the association. Results: Out of 405 pregnant women 418 were interviewed with a response rate of 96.8%. Only 24.7% of pregnant women with 95% CI 0.2074 - 0.2912 had good Nutritional practices. Nutrition Counseling during pregnancy, family wealth index, family size, husband support during pregnancy and age of pregnant woman were independent factors for good dietary practice. Conclusion: The prevalence of good nutritional practice among respondents was very low. The factors associated with nutritional practice were nutrition counseling during ANC, family size wealth index, household food security status, husband support and age of pregnant women"