Trial reportBMC pregnancy and childbirth2021
Enhancing nutrition knowledge and dietary diversity among rural pregnant women in Malawi: a randomized controlled trial.
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A Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Measuring the Effect of Dietary Counseling During Pregnancy on Infant Birthweight in Nankumba, Mangochi District, Malawi
Investigation of the Effectiveness of Social Media-Based Support in Developing Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Pregnancy
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A predictive model of inadequate minimum dietary diversity among women with a child under 24 months in ethiopia: a machine learning approach using the 2016 EDHS.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2026Article
- Psychometric development and validation of the paternal breastfeeding support scale in Chinese mothers: a methodological cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Effect of Nutrition Interventions on the Dietary Diversity Status Among Pregnant Women in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Food science & nutrition · 2025Review
- Improved antenatal care services in rural Ethiopia's public health centers through the Enhancing Nutrition and Antenatal Infection Treatment (ENAT) intervention.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Effect of nutrition behavior change communication on nutrition knowledge and dietary practices of pregnant adolescents in West Arsi, Central Ethiopia: a cluster randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Dietary diversity and associated factors among households and children in internally displaced person camps in Southern Somalia: A cross-sectional study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Article
- Associations of Eating Out and Dietary Diversity with Mild Cognitive Impairment among Community-Dwelling Older Adults.Annals of geriatric medicine and research · 2024Article
- Diet Quality Among Mothers and Children in India: Roles of Social and Behavior Change Communication and Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection Programs.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Prevalence and determinants of minimum dietary diversity for women of reproductive age in Uganda.BMC nutrition · 2024Article
- Dietary diversity and associated factors among women attending antenatal clinics in the coast region of Tanzania.BMC nutrition · 2024Article
- Outcomes of a homestead food production program on nutritional knowledge, dietary diversity, food security and empowerment of rural women in Tehran province, Iran.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Association between diet quality during pregnancy of mothers and that of 3-year-old offspring: a prospective hospital-based birth cohort study.Journal of nutritional science · 2024Article
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- A systematic review of behaviour change interventions to improve maternal health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Prevalence and determinants of inadequate dietary diversity among pregnant women in four Sub-Saharan Africa countries: a multilevel analysis of recent demographic and health surveys from 2021 to 2022.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of nutrition counseling for pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries to improve maternal and infant behavioral, nutritional, and health outcomes: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2023Review
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundIn many sub-Saharan African countries, such as Malawi, antenatal care (ANC) services do not deliver sufficient nutrition awareness to improve adequate dietary intake in pregnancy. We therefore compared the effects of supplementary nutrition education and dietary counselling with routine ANC service on nutrition knowledge and dietary intakes among Malawian pregnant women.
methodsWe used data from a two-armed cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) of which the intervention group received supplementary nutrition education, dietary counselling and routine ANC services whereas the controls received only routine ANC services. The RCT was conducted in 10 control and 10 intervention villages in Mangochi, Southern Malawi and included pregnant women between their 9
resultsAmong 257 pregnant women enrolled to the RCT, 195 (76%) were available for the current study. The supplementary nutrition education and counselling led to significant improvements in nutrition knowledge, dietary diversity and nutrition behaviour in the intervention group compared with controls. Most women from both study groups had a moderate consumption of diversified foods at study end-point. A significant positive association between nutrition knowledge and consumption of a diversified diet was only observed in the intervention group.
conclusionsNutrition knowledge and dietary diversity improved in both study groups, but higher in the intervention group. Increased nutrition knowledge was associated with improved dietary diversity only in the intervention women, who also improved their nutrition perceptions and behaviour. Antenatal nutrition education needs strengthening to improve dietary intakes in pregnancy in this low resource-setting.
trial registrationClinical trials.gov ID: NCT03136393 (registered on 02/05/2017).
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