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Level and predictors of dietary diversity among pregnant women in rural South-West Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study.
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- Dietary diversity and associated factors among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a systematic review with meta-analysis.Journal of global health · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of nutrition education integrating the health belief model and theory of planned behavior on dietary diversity of pregnant women in Southeast Ethiopia: a cluster randomized controlled trial.Nutrition journal · 2024Trial
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- Investigating the Dual Role of Trace and Toxic Elements in Pregnancy-Related Health Outcomes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 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
- Inadequate dietary diversity practices and associated factors among pregnant adolescents in the West Arsi Zone, Central Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Serum concentration of zinc, copper, iron, and its associated factors among pregnant women of small-scale farming in western Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Prevalence and factors associated with adequate dietary diversity among pregnant women in Nekemte town, Western Ethiopia, 2021.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Antenatal care follow-up was significantly associated with a higher probability of high dietary diversity score among pregnant women in okra-producing areas of western Ethiopia: proportional odds model.Food & nutrition research · 2023Article
- Prevalence of undernutrition and its associated factors among pregnant women in north Shewa, Ethiopia: A multi-center cross-sectional study.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the magnitude of dietary diversity and associated factors among pregnant women in the rural communities of Jimma Zone, south-west Ethiopia.
designA community-based cross-sectional study was conducted from 1 June to 30 June 2020. SETTINGS: The study was conducted in Seka Chekorsa and Mana districts. From a total of 63 listed kebeles, 21 were randomly selected.
participantsThree hundred sixty first-trimester pregnant women have participated in this study. We used a systematic random sampling method to select the participants after a home-to-home census. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOMES: Dietary diversity was assessed using a 24 hours dietary recall method. Descriptive statistics were computed to describe the study subjects. Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression was run to control for all possible confounding effects and measure the strength of association between the outcome of interest and predictor.
resultsThe overall magnitude of adequate dietary diversity was found to be 186 (51.7%); 95% CI 46.1% to 56.4%). Having attended elementary education (adjusted OR (AOR)=2.45; 95% CI 1.33 to 4.51), completed grade 8 (AOR=6.05; 95% CI 2.65 to 13.80), attended high school (AOR=11.69; 95% CI 3.76 to 36.27), completed high school and above (AOR=2.92; 95% CI 1.16 to 7.32), husbands attended high school (AOR=2.92; 95% CI 1.15 to 7.47), family size of less than five (AOR=3.44; 95% CI to 1.77-6.66) were positively significantly associated with adequate dietary diversity. On the other hand, not had additional meal during pregnancy (AOR=0.42; 95% CI 0.21 to 0.83) was negatively associated with adequate dietary diversity.
conclusionsWe observed that the adequate dietary diversity score of pregnant women was low compared with the pooled proportion of dietary diversity conducted in Ethiopia. Therefore, strengthening and promoting female education through intersectoral collaborations and additional meal counselling during pregnancy is indispensable.
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