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. 2022 Mar 31;19(1):84.
doi: 10.1186/s12978-022-01390-1.

Nutritional practice of pregnant women in Buno Bedele zone, Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study

Worke Sisay Yismaw  1 , Tigist Shayi Teklu  2
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Nutritional practice of pregnant women in Buno Bedele zone, Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study

Worke Sisay Yismaw et al. Reprod Health. .

Abstract

Background: Worthy health and welfare is part of the goals set by united nation. Dietary practice is visible activities or conducts of eating habit performed by a person. Poor maternal nutrition during pregnancy were associated with higher risk of having a preterm labour, low birth-weight, Intrauterine growth restrictions and facing threats to their own wellbeing and survival.

Objective: To assess the nutritional practice of pregnant women in Buno Bedele zone.

Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study design was deployed to conduct this study from November 1-30, 2019 in the Buno Bedele zone, Ethiopia. The study included 592 pregnant women and a proportional sample of the size of the population was allocated to each 32 kebeles. A structured interviewer administered pretested tool was utilized for data collection. Data entry was conducted using EPI-data version 3.4 and cleaned, edited and analyzed using the SPSS version 24.0. The data were presented in the form of text, frequencies, tables and figures while logistic regression was used to discover the association between dependent and independent variables.

Result: This study found that about 185 (31.2%) pregnant mothers had good dietary practice. The mothers' educational status (AOR = 1.33, 95% CI 0.34, 2.08), income (AOR = 5.7, 95% CI, 5.1, 6.65), dietary knowledge (AOR = 3.03, 95% CI 1.98, 4.18) and pregnancy intervals (AOR = 4.16 95% CI 2.74, 6.49) were factors found to be affecting the nutritional practices of pregnant women.

Conclusion and recommendation: Only 31.2% of pregnant women had good dietary practice. This indicated that the majority of study participants had a poor dietary practice, which is a concern because having poor dietary practice contributes to maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. To increase their nutrition practices to have a healthy pregnancy. We need to focus on; nutrition education on basic nutrients, community mobilization on dietary practices using media, work on barriers, and advocating nutrition practice activities.

Keywords: Buno-Bedele; Dietary practice; Pregnant women.

Plain language summary

Worthy health and welfare is part of the goals set by united nation. Dietary practice is visible activities or conducts of eating habit performed by a person. To have healthy and appropriate working of the body, eating balanced diet is very crucial. This study found that about 185 (31.2%) pregnant mothers had good dietary practice. The mothers’ educational status, income, dietary knowledge and pregnancy intervals were factors found to be affecting the nutritional practices of pregnant women. The finding indicated that the majority of study participants had a poor dietary practice, which is a concern because having poor dietary practice contributes to maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. To avert the problem this results healthy pregnancy. We need to focus on; nutrition education on basic nutrients, community mobilization on a diet using media, work on barriers and advocating nutrition practice.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Dietary practice of pregnant women in Buno-Bedele zone, south west Ethiopia, Aug, 2020 (n = 592)
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