Dietary Practices among Postpartum Women

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1 Department of Obstetric and Gynecologic Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, University of Sana'a, Yemen

2 Department of Obstetric and Gynecologic Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

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In order to assess the dietary knowledge and practices among postpartum women we studied 420 recently delivered (within 2 months) women and reported to the specified centers for vaccination of their newborns were interviewed. An exploratory descriptive research design was adopted. The study was conducted at seven Maternal-child health centers in Alexandria, EGYPT. An interview schedule was designed and utilized to collect the necessary data. It included socio-demographic characteristics, women's reproductive history, women's dietary practices, and women's knowledge about postnatal nutrition. Results yielded   that the total nutrition knowledge scores of the subjects was poor. Where only 6.0% had good score. As regards the practice; most of the studied women (90.2%) had added fenugreek and of them 79.2% had added moghat to their postnatal diet. While around half of they had omitted water intake. It can be concluded that there is poor level of knowledge regarding during postpartum period about well balanced diet.

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