Knowledge on maternal nutrition and associated factors among pregnant mothers on Antenatal Care Clinic follow up at Saint Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abstract

Background: Adequate and proper nutrition during pregnancy can lead to adequate growth and the conditions for successful breastfeeding in the first six months of life. Few studies have been conducted in Ethiopia, specifically in the study area to assess nutritional knowledge of pregnant mothers and associated factors during pregnancy. Objective: To assess the level of knowledge on maternal nutrition and associated factors among pregnant women on antenatal care clinic follow up unit in Saint Paul’s Hospital millennium medical college, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2024 Methods: Institution -based cross-sectional study was conducted among randomly selected 334 pregnant women attending ANC in in Saint Paul’s Hospital millennium medical college from June 1 to 30, 2024. Bi variable logistic regression was performed to select candidate variables for multivariable logistic regression at p < = 0.25. Multivariable logistic regression was done to identify the variables which have a statistically significant association with the dependent variable and variable which had p-value < 0.05 with 95% was considered as significant association with the dependent. Model fitness was checked by Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness of fit. Multi collinearity was checked with variance inflation. Result: Three hundred twenty-five study participants were included in the study with the response rate of 97.3%. The level of good maternal nutritional knowledge was 61.8% (95% CI (57.2, 68.6). Education status (AOR = 3.28 (95% CI: 1.12, 9.23)), family size (AOR = 2.18 (95%CI: 1.42, 6.33)), monthly income (AOR = 3.23(95%CI: 1.36, 8.81)) and ANC visits (AOR = 1.28(95%CI: 1.05, 3.94)) were significantly associated with maternal nutritional knowledge of pregnant mothers attending Antenatal Care Clinic follow up. Conclusion: The level of good maternal nutritional knowledge was among pregnant mothers attending Antenatal care. Educational status, family size, monthly income and number of ANC visits were sig