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Factors associated with undernutrition among pregnant women in Haramaya district, Eastern Ethiopia: A community-based study.
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Effectiveness of Culturally Customised Maternal Nutrition Education for Health Professionals in Improving Their Counselling Capacity in Ethiopia
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- Undernutrition and associated factors among pregnant women in Ethiopia. A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of nutrition education on the nutritional status of pregnant women in Robe and Goba Towns, Southeast Ethiopia, using a cluster randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Under nutrition and associated factors among pregnant women residing in productive safety net program beneficiary and nonbeneficiary households in West Belesa District, northwest Ethiopia.AJOG global reports · 2026Article
- Prevalence and determinants of undernutrition among lactating mothers in Jimma Town, Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study using Bayesian logistic regressionmodel.BMC women's health · 2026Article
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- Food consumption score and the Nexus of maternal nutritional status among pregnant women in Gamo Zone, South Ethiopia.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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- Associations of Plasmodium and Intestinal Helminth Infections with Maternal Anemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Northwest Ethiopia.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
- Factors associated with dietary patterns (DPS) and nutritional status among pregnant women in AM-HDSS, South Ethiopia.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Community-based nutrition education and counselling provided during pregnancy: effects on knowledge and attitude towards iron-folic acid supplementation.Journal of nutritional science · 2024Article
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- Factors associated with undernutrition among pregnant women in Chiro district, eastern Ethiopia.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
introductionAlthough undernutrition in pregnancy has continued to get global attention as pregnancy is considered a critical period in the life cycle owed to increase the metabolic and physiological demands, evidence is scarce on undernutrition and associated factors among pregnant women in eastern Ethiopia. Therefore, this study assessed the undernutrition and associated factors among pregnant women in Haramaya district, Eastern Ethiopia.
methodsA community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among randomly selected pregnant women in Haramaya district, eastern Ethiopia. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews, anthropometric measurement, and hemoglobin analysis by trained research assistants. An adjusted Prevalence ratio (aPR), and a 95% confidence interval (CI), were used to report associations. Poisson regression analysis model with a robust variance estimate identified variables associated with undernutrition. Data were double entered using Epi-data 3.1 and cleaned, coded, checked for missing and outliers, and analyzed using Stata 14 (College Station, Texas 77845 USA. Finally, the p-value <0.05 was the cut-off point for the significant association.
resultsA total of 448 pregnant women with a mean age of 25.68 (± 5.16) were included in the study. The prevalence of undernutrition among pregnant women was 47.9% (95% CI: 43%-53%). From the analysis, the undernutrition was more likely higher among respondents who had five or more family members (APR = 1.19; 95% CI = 1.02-1.40), lower dietary diversity (APR = 1.58; 95% CI = 1.13-2.21) and those who were anemic (APR = 4.27; 95% CI = 3.17-5.76).
conclusionNearly half of the pregnant women in study area were undernourished. High prevalence was found among women who had large family sizes, low dietary diversity and anemia during pregnancy. Improving dietary diversity, strengthening family planning services and giving special attention to pregnant women, supplementation of iron and folic acid, and early detection and treatment of anemia is essential to improve the high burden of undernutrition and the adverse effect on pregnant women and the fetus.
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