Mediating effects of women's empowerment on dietary diversity during pregnancy in Central West Ethiopia: A structural equation modelling.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Considerable proportions of pregnant women consume inadequately diversified diets in Ethiopia. On the other hand, women's empowerment is identified as a means of achieving maternal nutrition improvement. However, evidence on the relationship between multiple dimensions of women's empowerment and dietary diversity during pregnancy is limited in Ethiopia.

Objective

This study aimed to assess the mediating effects of women's empowerment in the pathway between women's education and dietary diversity during pregnancy in West Shewa zone, Ethiopia.

Methods

A health facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 1,383 pregnant women in 2021. Dietary diversity was measured using the minimum dietary diversity for women (MDD-W) tool. Exploratory and confirma

SUBMITTER: Etea TD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10763841 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature