Enhancing nutrition knowledge and dietary diversity among rural pregnant women in Malawi: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In many sub-Saharan African countries, such as Malawi, antenatal care (ANC) services do not deliver sufficient nutrition awareness to improve adequate dietary intake in pregnancy. We therefore compared the effects of supplementary nutrition education and dietary counselling with routine ANC service on nutrition knowledge and dietary intakes among Malawian pregnant women.

Methods

We used data from a two-armed cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) of which the intervention group received supplementary nutrition education, dietary counselling and routine ANC services whereas the controls received only routine ANC services. The RCT was conducted in 10 control and 10 intervention villages in Mangochi, Southern Malawi and included pregnant women between their 9

SUBMITTER: Katenga-Kaunda LZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8456581 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature