Minimum dietary diversity and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care in government health facilities of Soro district, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia
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Abstract
Background: This study sought to determine the prevalence of minimum dietary diversity and its associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care in government health facilities of Soro district, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia.
Methods: This is a facility-based study conducted in government health facilities of Soro district, Hadiya Zone, Ethiopia from Oct. 2020-Jan, 2021. Cross sectional study design was undertaken by using systematic sampling on 422 pregnant women attending antenatal care. Both bivariate and multivariable logistic regression analysis were used to assess the association of independent variables with outcome variable.
Results: From the total of 422 study subjects, 416 pregnant women attending antenatal care were participated in the study and making the response rate 98.6 percent. The overall prevalence of pregnant mothers who have met the minimum dietary diversity was only 7.9%. Maternal educational status being grade nine and above, eating meal more than three times per day and women being currently not married were found to be significantly associated with achieving the minimum dietary diversity among pregnant mothers.
Conclusion: The prevalence of the minimum dietary diversity among pregnant women attending ANC in public health facilities of Soro district was very low and far from national and international recommendations to enhance the maternal food diversity. Inter-sectoral collaboration is very important to increase the coverage and level of the maternal education. Moreover, health workers should strengthen the channel of counseling pregnant mothers during the antenatal care visit sessions and design an appropriate way to address their partners to enhance maternal adequate meal frequency and dietary diversity.
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