ASSESSMENT OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND HEALTH FOR PREGNANT WOMEN IN SAUDI ARABIA, | ||
| Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||
| Article 4, Volume 28, Issue 8, August 2003, Pages 6135-6150 PDF (18.31 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2003.245054 | ||
| Author | ||
| Manal A. M. Hassanein, | ||
| Dept. of Home Economics, Faculty of Specific Education, Minufiya University. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Nutrition before and during pregnancy plays extremely important role in ensuring maternal and infant health. Information on the nutritional status of pregnant women in Saudi is still limited. Therefore the present study was carried out to assess the nutritional status of pregnant women, and to investigate their food habits. A systematic random sample of 80 pregnant women were chosen from maternity hospital in (AL-Madina AI-Munawara) city. Socia-economics status, 24 hr dietary recall, food habits, information about risk factors and anthropometric measurements were obtained. This study revealed pronounced difficieneies in energy during pregnancy at 1s'and 3rd trimesters and zinc for pregnant women at different pregnancy periods. There was some different positive significant correlations between intake of some nutrients on one side and many health factors as the hemoglobin level frequency of abortions and disease for pregnant women during second trimester as well as anthropmelric measurements during third trimester. The results arrived at suggest to consider variety of the diet and increase intake of zinc (to avoid zinc deficiency) as well as the balance of diets in the meal. Moreover nutrition education is recommended for improving nutrition and health status of pregnant women and their infants. | ||
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