DIETARY PATTERN, ANTENATAL CARE ATTENDANCE AND BIRTH OUTCOME AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN AT MAIGANA WARD, SOBA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA.

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dc.contributor.authorDURKWA, Lakka Hajara
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-13T14:42:48Z
dc.date.available2019-09-13T14:42:48Z
dc.date.issued2019-04
dc.descriptionA DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NUTRITION DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY, FACULTY OF LIFE SCIENCES AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA NIGERIAen_US
dc.description.abstractInfant weight at birth is an important indicator of maternal health and nutrition, during pregnancy and a predictor of infant growth and survival. The effect of dietary intake, antenatal care attendance on birth outcome among randomly selected pregnant women in their third trimester in Maigana Ward of Soba Local Government Area, of Kaduna state was evaluated. Socio-economic/information, nutritional status, dietary intake, micronutrient status, antenatal care attendance score and baby‟s birth weight at delivery were determined using standard methods. The socioeconomic characteristics of the pregnant women evaluated included; age, marital status, highest educational attainment, occupation and monthly income, 10% of the pregnant women were between age 11-15years, while 73% were between age 16-30years, 68% had no formal education and (53%) were poor, earning less than #350 per day. Their nutritional status revealed that 9.7% were under weight (MUAC˂23.3cm), 31.1% were normal (MUAC 23.3 – 25.0 cm) and 59.2% were overweight (MUAC ˃25cm). Strong significant correlation was found between MUAC and maternal weight with birth weight of neonates (r=0.816, p=0.000 and r=0.648, p=0.000) respectively. The dietary pattern of the pregnant women reveals cereal, vegetable soup and sauces were frequently consumed more at 22.1 and 21%, 2-3 times/day while meat, fish and poultry, fruits and other plants were consumed less at 3 and 4.9%, once a day respectively. The antenatal care attendance and compliance status indicated that 76.7% were below compliance, 16.5% had minimal compliance and 6.8% had desired compliance. The mean micronutrient serum concentration (μmol) were 4.02, 2.52 and 0.45 for iron(Fe),zinc(Zn) and vitamin A respectively, leaving 73.1%, 96.2% and all (100%) deficient of the micronutrients. The incidence of low birth weights was 16.5%. Factors that have significant association with low birth weight are Age (χ2=58.609, p=0.000), occupation (χ2=13.019, p=0.011) monthly income (χ2=15.484, p=0.008) Iron level (χ2=7.344, p=0.007) and maternal nutritional status(χ2=40.713, p=0.000) .This study establish that nutritional status, socioeconomic status (age, occupation, monthly income), and antenatal compliance score of the pregnant women were determinants of their birth outcome in Maigana ward of Soba LGAen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11874
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectDIETARY PATTERN,en_US
dc.subjectANTENATAL CARE ATTENDANCE,en_US
dc.subjectBIRTH OUTCOME,en_US
dc.subjectPREGNANT WOMEN,en_US
dc.subjectMAIGANA WARD,en_US
dc.subjectSOBA LOCAL GOVERNMENT,en_US
dc.subjectKADUNA STATE,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIA,en_US
dc.titleDIETARY PATTERN, ANTENATAL CARE ATTENDANCE AND BIRTH OUTCOME AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN AT MAIGANA WARD, SOBA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA.en_US
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