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Dietary diversity and practice of pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

The dietary diversity of pregnant and lactating women remains unacceptably poor in resource‐limited countries such as Ethiopia. Despite the presence of inconsistent and inconclusive small‐scale studies, it is difficult to portray an actual picture of dietary diversity and dietary practices of women...

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Autores principales: Bitew, Zebenay Workneh, Alemu, Ayinalem, Ayele, Ermias Getaneh, Worku, Teshager
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34026082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.2228
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author Bitew, Zebenay Workneh
Alemu, Ayinalem
Ayele, Ermias Getaneh
Worku, Teshager
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description The dietary diversity of pregnant and lactating women remains unacceptably poor in resource‐limited countries such as Ethiopia. Despite the presence of inconsistent and inconclusive small‐scale studies, it is difficult to portray an actual picture of dietary diversity and dietary practices of women in Ethiopia. This study aimed to identify the prevalence of dietary diversity, dietary practice, and dietary patterns of pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia. Electronic and gray literature sources were explored. A total of 3,256 articles were found, of which 38 were included in the final analysis. The data were analyzed by using STATA version 15. The pooled estimates were presented using random‐effects models due to considerable heterogeneities among studies. In this study, 16,412 pregnant and lactating women were included. The pooled prevalence of low, medium, and high dietary diversity scores of pregnant women was 37.1%, 41.55%, and 39.3%, respectively. Likewise, low, medium, and high dietary diversity scores of lactating women were 50.31%, 41.22%, and 9.1%, respectively. The mean dietary diversity of pregnant and lactating women was 3.99 ± 0.20. Regarding the minimum dietary diversity, 56.6% of pregnant women and 50.21% of lactating women were found to have inadequate dietary diversities. Two‐third (65.7%) of pregnant women were found to have poor dietary practice. Starchy foods were the main staple foods of study subjects, whereas organ meats were least consumed food types. The dietary diversity score, minimum dietary diversity, and dietary practices of women are suboptimal and below WHO and FAO recommendations. This could lead to both macro‐ and micronutrient deficiencies. Policymakers, program managers, healthcare workers, and stakeholders need to redesign nutrition promotion and intervention programs to alleviate this issue.
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spelling pubmed-81168642021-05-20 Dietary diversity and practice of pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta‐analysis Bitew, Zebenay Workneh Alemu, Ayinalem Ayele, Ermias Getaneh Worku, Teshager Food Sci Nutr Original Research The dietary diversity of pregnant and lactating women remains unacceptably poor in resource‐limited countries such as Ethiopia. Despite the presence of inconsistent and inconclusive small‐scale studies, it is difficult to portray an actual picture of dietary diversity and dietary practices of women in Ethiopia. This study aimed to identify the prevalence of dietary diversity, dietary practice, and dietary patterns of pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia. Electronic and gray literature sources were explored. A total of 3,256 articles were found, of which 38 were included in the final analysis. The data were analyzed by using STATA version 15. The pooled estimates were presented using random‐effects models due to considerable heterogeneities among studies. In this study, 16,412 pregnant and lactating women were included. The pooled prevalence of low, medium, and high dietary diversity scores of pregnant women was 37.1%, 41.55%, and 39.3%, respectively. Likewise, low, medium, and high dietary diversity scores of lactating women were 50.31%, 41.22%, and 9.1%, respectively. The mean dietary diversity of pregnant and lactating women was 3.99 ± 0.20. Regarding the minimum dietary diversity, 56.6% of pregnant women and 50.21% of lactating women were found to have inadequate dietary diversities. Two‐third (65.7%) of pregnant women were found to have poor dietary practice. Starchy foods were the main staple foods of study subjects, whereas organ meats were least consumed food types. The dietary diversity score, minimum dietary diversity, and dietary practices of women are suboptimal and below WHO and FAO recommendations. This could lead to both macro‐ and micronutrient deficiencies. Policymakers, program managers, healthcare workers, and stakeholders need to redesign nutrition promotion and intervention programs to alleviate this issue. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8116864/ /pubmed/34026082 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.2228 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Food Science & Nutrition published by Wiley Periodicals LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Dietary diversity and practice of pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
title_full Dietary diversity and practice of pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
title_fullStr Dietary diversity and practice of pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
title_full_unstemmed Dietary diversity and practice of pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
title_short Dietary diversity and practice of pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
title_sort dietary diversity and practice of pregnant and lactating women in ethiopia: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34026082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.2228
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