Knowledge of nutrition during pregnancy and associated factors among antenatal mothers
Background: Nutritional requirement increases during pregnancy can influence the growth, development, and health of the mother and her newborn child. Understanding the antenatal mothers’ nutrition knowledge is essential to developing effective strategies to curb malnutrition and encouraging healthie...
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| author | Lim, Zhe Xin Wong, Jun Leong Lim, Poh Ying Soon, Lean Keng |
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| description | Background: Nutritional requirement increases during pregnancy can influence the growth, development, and health of the mother and her newborn child. Understanding the antenatal mothers’ nutrition knowledge is essential to developing effective strategies to curb malnutrition and encouraging healthier dietary behaviors. The aim of this study was to assess the level and associated factors of nutritional knowledge during pregnancy among antenatal mothers in a tertiary teaching hospital in northeast Malaysia. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was done on 88 randomly selected antenatal mothers at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic during their antenatal care visits. Data was collected using a pretested self-administered questionnaire between December 2015 and February 2016. The Kruskal-Wallis test was used to determine the association of selected socio-demographic variables and obstetric data with nutritional knowledge score among antenatal mothers. Results: The mean age of the participants was 32.06 ± 5.56 years. More than half (63.6%) of the antenatal mothers had good nutritional knowledge level. Higher occupational status (p=0.030) and monthly household income (p=0.016) of participants were significantly associated with higher nutritional knowledge score. Conclusion: These findings highlight the current knowledge gap that exists in antenatal mothers. It can be concluded that nutritional education ought to be intensified to address this issue. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-747952019-11-25T00:53:43Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/74795/ Knowledge of nutrition during pregnancy and associated factors among antenatal mothers Lim, Zhe Xin Wong, Jun Leong Lim, Poh Ying Soon, Lean Keng Background: Nutritional requirement increases during pregnancy can influence the growth, development, and health of the mother and her newborn child. Understanding the antenatal mothers’ nutrition knowledge is essential to developing effective strategies to curb malnutrition and encouraging healthier dietary behaviors. The aim of this study was to assess the level and associated factors of nutritional knowledge during pregnancy among antenatal mothers in a tertiary teaching hospital in northeast Malaysia. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was done on 88 randomly selected antenatal mothers at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic during their antenatal care visits. Data was collected using a pretested self-administered questionnaire between December 2015 and February 2016. The Kruskal-Wallis test was used to determine the association of selected socio-demographic variables and obstetric data with nutritional knowledge score among antenatal mothers. Results: The mean age of the participants was 32.06 ± 5.56 years. More than half (63.6%) of the antenatal mothers had good nutritional knowledge level. Higher occupational status (p=0.030) and monthly household income (p=0.016) of participants were significantly associated with higher nutritional knowledge score. Conclusion: These findings highlight the current knowledge gap that exists in antenatal mothers. It can be concluded that nutritional education ought to be intensified to address this issue. Community Health Society Malaysia (CHSM) 2018 Article NonPeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/74795/1/Knowledge%20of%20nutrition%20during%20pregnancy%20and%20associated%20factors%20among%20antenatal%20mothers.pdf Lim, Zhe Xin and Wong, Jun Leong and Lim, Poh Ying and Soon, Lean Keng (2018) Knowledge of nutrition during pregnancy and associated factors among antenatal mothers. International Journal of Public Health and Clinical Sciences (IJPHC), 5 (1). 117 - 128. ISSN ESSN: 2289-7577 http://publichealthmy.org/ejournal/ojs2/index.php/ijphcs/article/view/531 |
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| title_short | Knowledge of nutrition during pregnancy and associated factors among antenatal mothers |
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