Abstract:
Background: Nutrition is a fundamental pillar of human life and its requirement varies with respect to
age, gender and during physiological changes such as pregnancy.Pregnant mother’s nutritional
knowledge, attitudes, and practices were vital both their good health status and effective birth
outcomes.
Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of pregnant mothers on maternal
nutrition and its associated factors in Bure district, W/Gojjam zone, northwest Ethiopia.
Methods: A community based cross-sectional study was employed among 576 pregnant
mothers.The study was conducted from June 8, 2022 to July 8, 2022. Multi-stage sampling
technique was used to select samples for the study. Data were entered in Epi-data version 4.6 and
exported to SPSS version 26 to analyses. Bi-variable and multi-variable logistic regression
analyses were used to identify factors associated with knowledge, attitude and practice of
pregnant women on maternal nutrition.
Results: The level of good knowledge, favorable attitude and good practiec was 30.4% (95%CI,
26.9-34.3), 37% (95%CI, 33.2-40.9) and 35.6% (95%CI, 31.8-39.2) respectively. Pregnant
women, those able to read and write (AOR=2.105, 95%CI (1.027-3.409) and having 3-4 ANC
follow up (AOR= 3.899, 95%CI (1.406-5.809) were more likely to be knowledgable than the
resprocal respectively.Pregnant mothers those living in urban (AOR=2.422, 95CI (1.99-5.765)
and had information maternal nutrition (AOR=5.163, 95%CI (1.069-6.387) were more likely to
be had favorable attitude than the resprocal. Pregnant women, those living in urban (AOR=3.06,
95%CI (2.122-5.571), had information maternal nutrition (AOR=4.270, 95%CI (2.018-9.033)
and those eat ≥5 varites (AOR=3.02, 95%CI (2.012-5.01) were more likely to had good maternal
nutritional practice respectively.
Conclusion and recommendation: This study found that the knowledeg, atitude and practice
level of pregnant mothers was poor. Since, inorder to improve maternal nutrition of pregnant
mothers, Bure district health office more focus on maternal nutrition strongly integrated health
professionals and community through maternal nutrition dietary diversity demonistration and
routine ANC follow up.
