Abstract
In pregnancy a healthy dietary behavior is beneficial for the expecting mother and her fetus. Anemia is one of the most common nutritional deficiency disorders that can be prevented through promoting dietary behavior. The aim of this study is to examine the dietary behavior of pregnant woman with anemia in Bangladesh. A descriptive cross-sectional study design was applied. By using G* Power, 135 pregnant women were purposively recruited from MMCH, Dhaka. Data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, independent t-test and one way ANOVA. Findings showed the mean age of the participants was 25 (SD=4.96) years. Multi gravida was 55.6% and 68.1% reported their medium healthy condition. The average dietary behavior reported 56.03 (SD=6.15) and 67.4% participants’ hemoglobin concentration were within 10-10.9 g/dl. In bivariate analysis, finding showed that anemia has significantly related with age (F = 12.88, p < 001), level of education (F = 2.92, p = .036), income (r = 0.19, p = .027), gravida (F = 5.63, p = .004) health condition (F = 10.89, p < 001). The result of dietary behaviors showed that anemia has positively correlated (r = 0.21, p = .017) with dietary behavior. Dietary behavior is related with some factors, age, low level education, grand multi and primiparous, poor health condition found less hemoglobin concentration indicate as less dietary intake. Monthly income and dietary behavior impact in increasing Hemoglobin concentration. In this regards, maternal nurses might play a vital role for providing nursing intervention to improve pregnant women’s dietary behavior.
 Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. December 2020, 6(4): 674-682
Highlights
Dietary behavior is the eating practice for health benefits, especially during pregnancy associated with nutrition deficiency diseases
The aim of this study is to examine the dietary behavior of pregnant women with anemia in Bangladesh with specific objectives of to describe the health related characteristics of pregnant women with anaemia, to explore the dietary behavior of pregnant woman with anaemia in Bangladesh, to examine the relationship between demographic characteristics and anaemia of pregnant woman, to examine the relationship between health status, dietary behaviour and anemia in pregnant women
As regard socio-demographic characteristic of the studied among pregnant women with anaemia was found (Table 1) that majority of the participants were aged from >25 years, higher haemoglobin concentration group are below 19 Years (Table 4) and haemoglobin concentration is lower among the age group of 20-24 years (Table 4) that indicates low dietary habits than the other age group
Summary
Dietary behavior is the eating practice for health benefits, especially during pregnancy associated with nutrition deficiency diseases. Anemia is one of the most common nutritional deficiency diseases observed globally, including Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, surveys over the past 10 years have estimated the prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age to range from 23% to 95%, depending on age, pregnancy status, and urban versus rural residency (Dayal and Dayal, 2014). Bangladesh Demographic and Health survey (2011) showed that over past 16 years the prevalence of anemia in pregnant women was 48.10% compared to the broader south-east Asian prevalence of 85% (Imdad and Bhutta, 2012). The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the prevalence of anemia among pregnant woman in developed countries is 14% (Dayal and Dayal, 2014) and 42%
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