Sources of nutrition information for Indonesian women during pregnancy: how is information sought and provided?

Abstract

Objective: Adequate and appropriate nutrition education is expected to contribute toward preventing risk of child stunting and maternal overweight/obesity. Understanding women’s information seeking behaviours is an important key step for health professionals and departments of health in order to improve the development of optimal and targeted nutrition education during pregnancy. This study investigated the experience of Indonesian women in seeking and receiving nutritional information during pregnancy and its relationship to women’s sociodemographic and pregnancy characteristics. Design: An online cross-sectional study. Setting: Malang City, Indonesia. Participants: Women who had given birth within the past two years (n 335). Results: All women in this study sought or received food and nutrition information from multiple sources, including social and health professional contacts and media sources. The women frequently discussed nutrition issues with their family, particularly their husband (98‧2%), mother or mother-in-law (91‧6%). This study identified four groups of sources based on women’s search habits. Women from high socioeconomic strata were more likely to have discussed issues or received nutrition information from obstetricians, their family or online sources (adjusted R2 = 26‧3%). Women from low socioeconomic strata were more likely to receive nutrition information from midwives, health volunteers and Maternal and Child Health (MCH) books (adjusted R2 = 14‧5%). Conclusions: A variety of nutrition information sources needs to be provided for women from different socioeconomic strata. Involvement of family members in antenatal nutrition education may improve the communication and effectiveness of young mothers’ dietary and nutrition education.

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