Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 11

Nutritional Knowledge and Practices amongpregnant Women attending Primary Health Care Center in Baghdad City

1Assist. Prof. (M. Sc), Collage of Health and Medical Technology, Baghdad, Middle Technical University, Baghdad, Iraq

Abstract

To estimate the grade of knowledge and practice of nutrition among women of pregnancy.

A cross-sectional study carried out in at al-Kadmayha& Bab-almoadham primary health care. The sample was selected by (non probability convenient sampling) and sample size was (100). Data was collected done by interview to take out demographic information.

The result display that the multitude of cases were (45%) through age group (20–29) years. As for education (3%) were illiterate As for occupation (61%) were workers and about (39%) housewife. and this research explore that (67%) of gravid female had kindly knowing and about (56%) of gravid women had good practice on feeding pending pregnancy. Conclusions: This project displays the factors that found significant combination with nutrition knowledge. Consist of standard of awareness and nourishment acquaintance through conception and significant convenient relevance between the age group and nutrition habit during pregnancy.

Keywords

Knowledge, practice, factors, nutrition, pregnancy, Baghdad