Diversified dietary intake and associated factors among pregnant mothers attending antenatal care follow-up in public health facilities of Dire Dawa, Eastern Ethiopia

Abstract

Poor diversity dietary intake has great significance to women, pregnancy outcome and on her fetus or the growing and development of their baby collectively. Uncertainty of studies to examine whether pregnant women have been utilizing diversity dietary in their frequent intake and this has changed nutritional status. Therefore, this study aims to assess diversified dietary intake and associated factors among pregnant mothers attending antenatal care follow-up in public health facilities of Dire Dawa, Eastern Ethiopia. A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 453 pregnant mothers randomly selected from the antenatal care unit at public health facilities from November 1-30/2020. Study subjects were selected with a systematic random sampling method from randomly selected antenatal care unity of health facilities in Dire Dawa Administration. A structured questionnaire and anthropometric measurements were used to collect data. Data were entered with kobo software and exported to Statistical Package for Social Science statistical software version 20 for analysis. Binary and multiple logistic regression models were used to declare the significance of independent variables at P<0.05. This study shows 55% (95% CI = (50–59.5) were inadequate diversified dietary intake. Having lower monthly income (Adjusted Odds Raito [AOR] = 4.4, Confident interval [95%CI] = 1.3–14.6), elementary educational status of mothers (AOR = 3.8, 95%CI = 1.5–9.9), consumption of two meals per day (AOR = 16.6, 95% CI = 2.04–135.8), didn’t get antenatal care counseling (AOR = 2.2, 95% CI = 1.1–2.8) were significantly associated with diversified dietary. The result revealed that around 55% of respondents had inadequate dietary diversity. low household income, had less maternal education level and, consuming two meals per day, and no information about dietary diversity has contributed to inadequate dietary diversity. Accordingly, go forward in the right side of those variables were the core recommendation of this study.

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“…In terms of sociodemographic characteristics, pregnant women with a university education or higher and those residing in the city had a lower likelihood of adverse outcomes, likely due to better job opportunities and access to healthcare resources and services [ 20 ]. Being unmarried was considered a favorable factor for adverse outcomes, possibly because unmarried individuals have more opportunities for unknown sexual partners with HBV infection, a finding consistent with a study in Ethiopia [ 21 ]. However, other research has suggested the opposite, indicating that married pregnant women are more likely to be infected with HBV [ 22 ], and these differences may depend on the country, geographic location, and cultural background of the study population.…”

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“…In terms of sociodemographic characteristics, pregnant women with a university education or higher and those residing in the city had a lower likelihood of adverse outcomes, likely due to better job opportunities and access to healthcare resources and services [20] . Being unmarried was considered a favorable factor for adverse outcomes, possibly because unmarried individuals have more opportunities for unknown sexual partners with HBV infection, a nding consistent with a study in Ethiopia [21] . However, other research has suggested the opposite, indicating that married pregnant women are more likely to be infected with HBV [22] , and these differences may depend on the country, geographic location, and cultural background of the study population.…”

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“…Globally, over 170 million people are undernourished among which 1 billion suffer from micronutrient deficiencies [ 10 , 11 ]. In Africa, the burden of undernutrition due mainly to inadequate dietary diversification is still high with an estimated prevalence of 23.5% [ 12 , 13 ] and pregnant women are regarded as most vulnerable [ 14 , 15 ]. Furthermore, the consequences of inadequate maternal nutrient intake are severe for the new-borns [ 11 ] as every year nearly 20 million infants are born with LBW, an early form of malnutrition that is closely linked to maternal nutritional status during pregnancy [ 11 ].…”