The relation between pregnant adolescents’ attitude about nutrition and weight gain during pregnancy and hemoglobin level

Abstract

<p align="justify"> <span style="font-size:10pt;">Purpose</span><span style="font-size:10pt;">: This study is carried out to analyze the relation of weight raise and hemoglobin level during pregnancy of pregnant adolescents to their nutriational attitudes. Methods: This study is a cross-sectional study carried out to examine the relationship between nutrition habits vs weight and level of hemoglobin in the 49 pregnant adolescents participants (≤18 years of age) who had applied to pregnant and emergency services in Sammas Vehbi Ekecik Gynecology and Children’s Hospital in the city of Aksaray, Turkey, between February 15 and March 25 2004, and accepted to participate in this study. General information regarding the pregnant adolescents, their knowledge on nutrition and nutritional habits were filled in during face-to-face interviews. These pregnant adolescents were monitored during the months of April, May, June and July and their measurements were taken. Data of the study were analyzed in a computer. Results: When the nutritional knowledge scores of the pregnant adolescents are considered, it was seen that 30 (61.2%) had a good knowledge level, 10 (20.4%) had a knowledge of intermediary level, and 9 (18.3%) had a low or insufficient level of knowledge. As for the nutrition habit scores, 28 of pregnant adolescents (57.1%) had fine, and 21 of them (42.7%) had poor and inadequate levels of nutrition habits. Conclusion: When the relation between the hemoglobin levels measured of the pregnant adolescents’ according to the their nutrition knowledge scores and the distribution of their habits was analysed, it was not found meaningful (p > 0.05). </span><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span> </p> <p> <span></span> </p

Assessment of Nutritional Patterns of Pregnant Adolescents in Aswan City

“…On the contrary, the current finding is not in line with the study of Özünlü& Cetinkaya (2013) (40) who indicated that more than one half (57.1%) of their study subjects had fine total score of nutritional habits. This resulted from eating food that contained high fat, sugar and consume tea or coffee which led to unhealthy eating practices.…”

“…On the contrary, the findings of Özünlü & Cetinkaya (2013) (40) who had studied "The relation between pregnant adolescents' attitudes toward nutrition and weight gain during pregnancy and hemoglobin level" had reported that (61.2%) of their study subjects had a good knowledge. Although the age of the study subjects in Özünlü & Cetinkaya is similar to the age of present study subjects (40) .…”

“…On the contrary, the findings of Özünlü & Cetinkaya (2013) (40) who had studied "The relation between pregnant adolescents' attitudes toward nutrition and weight gain during pregnancy and hemoglobin level" had reported that (61.2%) of their study subjects had a good knowledge. Although the age of the study subjects in Özünlü & Cetinkaya is similar to the age of present study subjects (40) . Moreover, the finding of the current study revealed that around two thirds of the current study subjects answered correctly but incomplete about the source of food elements as carbohydrate, vitamins, iron and calcium as well as, more than one half of them don`t know the healthy food groups (table 1).…”

“…It is worth mentioning that positive statistically significant correlation was found between the nutritional knowledge of her study subjects and the mother's education (P<0.01) as well as the father's education (P<0.05) (44) . The second one is the study of Daba G et al (2013) (40) who indicated that there was a positive statistically significant correlation between nutritional knowledge of their study subjects and the educational status as well as their family income (P <0.001). This is may be attributed to the fact that near two thirds of their study subjects were illiterate and more than three quarters have low family income.…”