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Effect of Nutrition Education on Knowledge and Healthy Dietary Practice Among Pregnant Women

NCT04415450 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 226

Last updated 2020-06-04

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Summary

Healthy pregnancy and birth outcomes is greatly influenced by the intake of adequate and balanced nutrition. Pregnant women's nutritional knowledge and practice have been identified as an important prerequisites for their proper nutritional intake. The antenatal period with the opportunities for regular contact with health professionals appears to be the ideal time and setting to institute the intervention which could maximize pregnant women's outcome and that of their baby by motivating them to make nutritional changes. The overall objective of the research was to assess the effect of nutrition education on the appropriate nutritional knowledge and practice of pregnant women.

Conditions

  • Pregnancy Nutritional Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition Education counseling

In the context of health education program, an educational intervention was developed by the research team based on a training module. The nutrition education contained introductory messages and focused on meanings of healthy diet, eating a variety of food, eating well with the locally available food, hazards of maternal malnutrition, important supplements to be taken during pregnancy, harmful substances to be avoided, and measures of alleviating common discomforts associated with nutrition during pregnancy. The training program was carried out in the form of counseling using printed materials and flip charts for pictorial representation. Self-reading of leaflets containing the core messages for every topic prepared in the native language of the participants was also employed as the women in the study had one each.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Orotta College of Medicine and Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lidia G Teweldemedhin, MSc · Lecturer

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
49 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-31
Primary Completion
2018-09-22
Completion
2018-09-24

Countries

  • Eritrea

Study Locations

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