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Dietary diversity is not associated with haematological status of pregnant women resident in rural areas of northern Ghana

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Title Dietary diversity is not associated with haematological status of pregnant women resident in rural areas of northern Ghana
 
Creator Saaka, M.
Oladele, J.
Larbi, Asamoah
Hoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard
 
Subject pregnant women
haematological
nutritional status
dietary diversity
northern ghana
 
Description Open Access Journal
Information regarding how dietary diversity is related to haematological status of the pregnant women in rural areas of Northern Ghana is limited. This study therefore evaluated maternal dietary intake and how it relates to the nutritional status of pregnant women belonging to different socioeconomic conditions in Northern Ghana. Methods. This study was cross-sectional in design involving 400 pregnant women. Midupper arm circumference (MUAC) and anaemia status were used to assess the nutritional status of pregnant women. Results. The mean dietary diversity score (DDS) of the study population from ten food groups was (95% CI: 4.08 to 4.37). Of the 400 women, 46.1% (95% CI: 40.0 to 52.2) met the new minimum dietary diversity for women (MDD-W). The mean haemoglobin concentration among the pregnant women studied was 10.1 g/dl ± 1.40 (95% CI: 9.8 to 10.3). The independent predictors of haemoglobin concentration were maternal educational attainment, gestational age, frequency of antenatal care (ANC) attendance, number of under-five children in the household, size of MUAC, and maternal height. Conclusions. Irrespective of the socioeconomic status, women minimum dietary diversity (MDD-W) was not associated with anaemia among pregnant women resident in the rural areas of Northern Ghana.
 
Date 2017
2017-01-18T12:52:38Z
2017-01-18T12:52:38Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Saaka, M., Oladele, J., Larbi, A. & Hoeschle-Zeledon, I. (2017). Dietary diversity is not associated with haematological status of pregnant women resident in rural areas of northern Ghana. Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, 2017, Article ID 8497892.
2090-0724
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/78833
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/8497892
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 1-10
application/pdf
 
Publisher Hindawi Limited
 
Source Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism