Nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice among antenatal and postnatal mothers in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA), Kuantan, Pahang 2016

Background: Balanced and sufficient maternal nutritional intake ensures not only the wellbeing of pregnant mother, fetus and newborn (protection of life), but also her future health and her three generations (protection of progeny). Nutritional inadequacies during pregnancy have been reported and s...

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Main Authors: Ikhsan, Liyana Nabihah, Mohd Nasaruddin, Nur Asifa, Othman, Farhana, Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim, Ismail, Hamizah
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spelling iium-603932019-01-24T07:14:39Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/60393/ Nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice among antenatal and postnatal mothers in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA), Kuantan, Pahang 2016 Ikhsan, Liyana Nabihah Mohd Nasaruddin, Nur Asifa Othman, Farhana Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim Ismail, Hamizah RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine RG551 Pregnancy Background: Balanced and sufficient maternal nutritional intake ensures not only the wellbeing of pregnant mother, fetus and newborn (protection of life), but also her future health and her three generations (protection of progeny). Nutritional inadequacies during pregnancy have been reported and several factors were attributed. The objectives were to measure nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) during pregnancy and the relationship with socio-demographic characteristics. Methods: Cross-sectional study was conducted among 320 antenatal and postnatal mothers in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA), Pahang, Malaysia from 18th July to 27th August 2016. A pre-tested self-constructed, interview-guided questionnaire was used. Independent variables were age, ethnicity, educational level, marital status, and monthly household income. Outcomes were nutritional KAP level with median used for the categorization. Relationship between independent variables and outcomes obtained by logistic regression with significance at p<0.05. Results: Sixty-five percent aged from 25 to 34, 84% Malays, 37% completed secondary education with SPM/Olevel, 96% married, 48% from middle-income family, 52% had good nutritional knowledge, 67% with positive attitude and 55% with good practice. Age and educational level were significantly related to knowledge. Only educational level was significantly related to practice. Less than 70% of respondents have good nutritional KAP, reflected by educational level with more than half of them received up to secondary education. Hence, the rights of mothers in getting necessary and adequate education should be fulfilled. Conclusion: Results emphasize on the importance of empowering girls and women with adequate educations and to strengthen the nutritional and health education of our educational system. It is for them to be knowledgeable with good attitude and practicing healthy nutritional lifestyle as they entering reproductive life, maintaining and transferring at least optimum healthy life to their progenies. Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/60393/1/60393_Nutritional%20Knowledge%2C%20Attitude%20and%20Practice%20among%20Antenatal%20and%20Postnatal%20Mothers%20in%20Hospital%20Tengku%20Ampuan%20Afzan%20%28Htaa%29%2C%20Kuantan%2C%20Pahang%202016_WOS.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/60393/2/60393_Nutritional%20Practice%20among%20Antenatal%20and%20Postnatal%20Mothers%20in%20HTAA_ARTICLE.pdf Ikhsan, Liyana Nabihah and Mohd Nasaruddin, Nur Asifa and Othman, Farhana and Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim and Ismail, Hamizah (2017) Nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice among antenatal and postnatal mothers in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA), Kuantan, Pahang 2016. International Medical Journal Malaysia (IMJM), 17 (Special Issue 1). pp. 167-173. ISSN 1823-4631 http://iiumedic.net/imjm/v1/
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topic RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
RG551 Pregnancy
spellingShingle RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
RG551 Pregnancy
Ikhsan, Liyana Nabihah
Mohd Nasaruddin, Nur Asifa
Othman, Farhana
Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim
Ismail, Hamizah
Nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice among antenatal and postnatal mothers in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA), Kuantan, Pahang 2016
description Background: Balanced and sufficient maternal nutritional intake ensures not only the wellbeing of pregnant mother, fetus and newborn (protection of life), but also her future health and her three generations (protection of progeny). Nutritional inadequacies during pregnancy have been reported and several factors were attributed. The objectives were to measure nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) during pregnancy and the relationship with socio-demographic characteristics. Methods: Cross-sectional study was conducted among 320 antenatal and postnatal mothers in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA), Pahang, Malaysia from 18th July to 27th August 2016. A pre-tested self-constructed, interview-guided questionnaire was used. Independent variables were age, ethnicity, educational level, marital status, and monthly household income. Outcomes were nutritional KAP level with median used for the categorization. Relationship between independent variables and outcomes obtained by logistic regression with significance at p<0.05. Results: Sixty-five percent aged from 25 to 34, 84% Malays, 37% completed secondary education with SPM/Olevel, 96% married, 48% from middle-income family, 52% had good nutritional knowledge, 67% with positive attitude and 55% with good practice. Age and educational level were significantly related to knowledge. Only educational level was significantly related to practice. Less than 70% of respondents have good nutritional KAP, reflected by educational level with more than half of them received up to secondary education. Hence, the rights of mothers in getting necessary and adequate education should be fulfilled. Conclusion: Results emphasize on the importance of empowering girls and women with adequate educations and to strengthen the nutritional and health education of our educational system. It is for them to be knowledgeable with good attitude and practicing healthy nutritional lifestyle as they entering reproductive life, maintaining and transferring at least optimum healthy life to their progenies.
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author Ikhsan, Liyana Nabihah
Mohd Nasaruddin, Nur Asifa
Othman, Farhana
Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim
Ismail, Hamizah
author_facet Ikhsan, Liyana Nabihah
Mohd Nasaruddin, Nur Asifa
Othman, Farhana
Abd. Aziz, Karimah Hanim
Ismail, Hamizah
author_sort Ikhsan, Liyana Nabihah
title Nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice among antenatal and postnatal mothers in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA), Kuantan, Pahang 2016
title_short Nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice among antenatal and postnatal mothers in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA), Kuantan, Pahang 2016
title_full Nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice among antenatal and postnatal mothers in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA), Kuantan, Pahang 2016
title_fullStr Nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice among antenatal and postnatal mothers in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA), Kuantan, Pahang 2016
title_full_unstemmed Nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice among antenatal and postnatal mothers in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA), Kuantan, Pahang 2016
title_sort nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice among antenatal and postnatal mothers in hospital tengku ampuan afzan (htaa), kuantan, pahang 2016
publisher Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia
publishDate 2017
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/60393/
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