Journal of Women's Health Care
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-0420
ISSN: 2167-0420
Romedan Delil Kedir, Hassen Mosa Halil*, Ritbano Ahmed Abdo, Ashebir Endale Reta and Shamill Eanga Helill
Background: Anemia during pregnancy is an important contributor to maternal mortality, morbidity and poor fetal outcomes. It remains as one of the utmost unresolved public health problems in developing countries including Ethiopia. Therefore, this study intended to assess the prevalence and predictors of anemia among pregnant women in the public health facilities of Hossana town, South Ethiopia.
Methods: A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 284 antenatal care attending pregnant mothers from April 1-30, 2019. The systematic random sampling method was used to select the study subjects. Data were collected through face-to-face interview and chart-review. Data were entered into the epi-data (version 3.1) and analyzed by using SPSS software (version 24). Both, bivariable and multivariable binary logistic regression was computed. Variables with P-value<0.05 were considered statistically significant at 95% Confidence Interval (CI).
Results: The overall prevalence of anemia was observed to be 26.4%. Being not informed about anemia (AOR=2.2, CI (4.1, 5.6)), heavy menstrual bleeding before the current pregnancy (AOR=3.6, CI (5.2, 13.4)), not taking animal origin food within a week (AOR=6.4, CI (4.1, 15.2)) and meal frequency of less than two times per day (AOR=2.9, CI (3.1, 22.2)) were significantly associated factors of anemia.
Conclusion: In the study setting, anemia is observed to be a moderate public health problem. Therefore, improving awareness about anemia, increasing intake of meals and strengthening nutritional counselling on consumption of iron rich foodstuffs, particularly animal sources of diet is very important to reduce the prevalence of anemia.
Published Date: 2024-06-28; Received Date: 2020-02-11