Dietary Diversity, Undernutrition and Associated Factors Among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care at Mattu Town Public Health Facilities, South Western Ethiopia.
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Background: Dietary diversity is the term used to describe a person's balanced intake of food in order to meet their nutritional needs. According to data from the EDHS in 2016, 22% of women are undernourished or thin, indicating a significant rate of malnutrition among women. This is associated with a maternal death rate of 420 per 100,000 live births. Objective: To assess dietary diversity, under nutrition and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care at public health facilities in Mattu Town, south-western Ethiopia Method: An institutional based cross-sectional study design was conducted among 382 pregnant women selected by a simple random sampling method from September, 17 to November, 17/2024 GC. Maternal anthropometric measurements, pregnancy and nutrition related data was collected by trained data collectors. The collected data were double entered to Epi-Data version 3.1 and exported to Statistical Package for Social Science version 25 for analysis. Descriptive statistics was used to describe characteristics of study participants. Mid Upper Arm Circumference of the left arm of the respondents were measured the nutritional status of mother using cutoff point for mid upper arm circumference>23cm normal and 4 (AOR=1.78.95%CI: 0.398, 2.01),being un-literate (no formal education)(AOR=1.23,95%CI:0.676,1.84), being daily laborer(AOR=2.39, 95% CI: (1.4,3.1), low average monthly household income less than 1500Ethiopianbirr(AOR=1.83,95%CI: 0.41, 2.17), WDDS <5 (AOR:1.24, 95% CI:0.72, 2.88), and meal frequency <2 times a day (AOR:1.7, 95% CI: 1.16,2.02) were factors associated with dietary diversity and under nutrition among pregnant women. Conclusion: Magnitude of under nutrition and inadequate dietary diversity among pregnant women were high in study area. Maternal no formal education, Household income and family size were significantly associated with pregnant women nutritional status and dietary diversity. Therefore, pregnant women, government, non-governmental organization and other stakeholders should focus on importance of maternal education, improving household income, and minimize family size to improve the use of diversified diet, and nutritional status of pregnant women.
DOI: 10.20372/nadre:16532
Author: BERHANU BELAY
Institution: Mattu University
Language: English
Subfield: Nutrition and Dietetics
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6926088516
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