Effect of nutrition education integrating the health belief model and theory of planned behavior during pregnancy on gestational weight gain and birth weight in Southeast Ethiopia using complex analyses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The incidence of inadequate or excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) is an indicator of reproductive health problems. However, scientific evidence for the effect of nutrition education during pregnancy on GWG and neonatal birth weight (BW) in urban settings in Ethiopia is sparse. This study aimed to assess the effect of nutrition education during pregnancy on GWG and neonatal birth weight (BW) in urban settings in Southeast Ethiopia.

Methods

A community-based two-arm parallel cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted among 447 randomly selected pregnant women attending antenatal care (224 intervention and 223 control) from February to December 2021. Study participants were selected by multistage cluster sampling followed by systematic sampling. Women rec

SUBMITTER: Beressa G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11849348 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature