Factors associated with malnutrition among pregnant women and lactating mothers in Miesso Health Center, Ethiopia

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Malnutrition is one of the major problems in which the physical function of an individual is impaired to the point that it can no longer maintain adequate body processes such as growth, physical work, and resistance to or recovery from disease. Malnutrition is associated with a low economic situation, and poor personal and environmental hygiene. Recent studies found that the centre of the problem is the backward socioeconomic development of the country. The level of the healthcare services in Ethiopia is low, even when compared to sub-Sahara African countries. The objective of this study was to assess the magnitude of malnutrition and associated factors among pregnant women and lactating mothers in the Miesso Health Centre, Miesso Woreda, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted from 1 February to 30 May 2017, among pregnant women and lactating mothers in Miesso Woreda. A sample of 304 women was selected using a systematic random sampling approach from the list of patients, with different sociodemographic status. RESULTS Our results showed that among all pregnant women and lactating mothers, 12.6% were overweight and 30.3% were underweight. From multiple logistic regression analysis, family incomes (AOR=2.056, 95% CI: 1.051-4.023) and age of women (AOR=2.169, 95% CI: 1.015-4.634) were significantly associated with the nutritional status of the study participants. CONCLUSIONS We recommend that authorities should: facilitate the rural-urban community's access to information on nutrition including eating-practices sanitation; initiate a health and development program during pregnancy and lactation; expand women's education on diet during pregnancy and lactation.

Prevalence and associated factors of undernutrition among pregnant women vising ANC clinic in Silte zone, southern Ethiopia

“…Pregnant women who are at age of between 31-35 years have decreased risk of undernutrition by 15% when compared to pregnant women of age less than 31 years. Consistent nding is reported in other studies (21,22,34,41). This could be possibly due to early age women often have lack of awareness about their own health and nutritional status that leads to poor nutritional status.…”

Predictors of Malnutrition among Pregnant Women in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

“…Monthly family income was another factors signi cantly associated with malnutrition in which its relation described in ve original studies [27,34,47,48,54]. The likely hood of malnutrition among pregnant women who had monthly income of less than 1000 Ethiopian birr was 3 times higher than their counterparts (OR = 3.07, 95% CI: 1.36, 6.92) (Fig-4).…”

“…These articles were from six regional state and two cities of Ethiopia. Eight studies were done in Oromo regional state [25,26,28,30,31,33,46,47], six articles in Amhara region [32,[48][49][50][51][52], four articles from South Nation and Nationality of People (SNNP) [27,34,53,54], two articles in Tigray [29,55] and in Addis Ababa (AA) [56], Dire Dawa [57], Gambella [58] and Ethiopian Somalia [59] shared single articles for each.…”

“…In regarding to criteria to classify as malnutrition, 87.5% of the included articles use MUAC [25, 27-33, 35, 46, 48-54, 56-59] and the remaining 12.5% of the extracted studies use BMI (below 18.5 kg/cm 2 ) [26,47,55]. Those studies which used MUAC, six of them considered malnutrition when MUAC below 21 cm, nine of them considered it when MUAC below 22 cm whereas the rest six considered when MUAC below 23 cm.…”

Under nutrition and associated factors among lactating mothers in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Of these, 94 articles and 148 articles were excluded due to duplication and title and abstract screening respectively. A total of 18 articles were selected for full article reading and 2 records were additionally removed by the studies were conducted in both lactating and pregnant mothers together [30,31]. Lastly, 16 articles were selected for the nal review and meta-analysis [13,15,16,[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43] [ Figure 1].…”