Prevalence and associated factors of anemia among pregnant women of Mekelle town: a cross sectional study

BMC Research Notes

Molla Mesele Wassie¹  Melkie Edris Yesuf¹  Abrehet Abriha¹ 

[1]Department of Human Nutrition, College of Medicine and Health sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

关键词: Women;    Pregnant;    Associated factors;    Prevalence;    Anemia;   

Others  :  1092432
DOI  :  10.1186/1756-0500-7-888

 received in 2014-09-03, accepted in 2014-11-28,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Nutritional anemia is the most common type of anemia worldwide and mainly includes iron, folic acid, vitamin B₁₂ and vitamin C deficiencies. Anemia is a global public health problem affecting people in all age groups but the burden of the problem is higher in pregnant women. The study aimed to assess prevalence of anemia and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care in governmental health institutions in mekele town.

Methods

Institution based cross-sectional study was employed. Systematic random sampling procedure was employed to select 619 study subjects. Pretested questionnaire were used to collect the data. The predictive value of the variable to Anemia was identified by bivariate and multiple logistic regression analysis.

Result

The overall prevalence of anemia among pregnant women was 19.7%. Meal frequency less than two per day [AOR 3.93 95% CI (2.0,7.9)], Low Dietary Diversity score [AOR 12.8 95% CI (6.4,25.6)], Medium Dietary Diversity score [AOR 2.4 95% CI (1.2,4.8)], Parity [AOR 2.3 95% CI (1.4,3.8)] and Meat consumption less than once per week [AOR 2.2 95% CI (1.0,4.9)] were found to be factors affecting Anemia in pregnant women.

Conclusion

Anemia among pregnant women is found to be mild public health problem in the study area. Parity, meal frequency, dietary diversity and meat consumption were significantly and independently affect anemia of pregnant women. Using family planning methods and improved meat consumption contributes for decreasing prevalence of anemia. Moreover, Diversifying food intake and increasing meal frequency of pregnant women is highly recommended.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Abriha et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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