ASSESSMENT OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF PREGNANT WOMEN: A STUDY IN NOAKHALI DISTRICT

Abstract

Nutrition is a elementary pillar of individual life, health and development throughout the entire life span. Pregnancy is such a vital phase in a woman’s life, when the pregnant mother needs optimal greater quality of food to support the developing fetus. Children are vital to the nation’s present and its future in recent years, there has been an increased focus on issues that affect children and on improving their health. For the study sixty pregnant women were purposively selected. A pre planned questionnaire containing the general information of the pregnant women such as age, education, income of the family, type of family, no of family members and the information regarding obstetrical history as age at first pregnancy, parity, spacing and type of delivery was prepared. The information about complications during pregnancy, biochemical examination i.e. hemoglobin content and blood group of pregnant women was also collected. The questionnaire also contained the information about meal pattern and food consumption of the pregnant women. Discuss about the nutritional health status &food consumption of pregnant women . Different types of charts, graphs etc for describing the health nutritious condition of the selected pregnant women of Sadar upazila in Noakhali district. Discuss about the effect of nutritional status of pregnant women on outcome of pregnancy by using some cross tabulation analysis, chi-square test. I have learned about how to consume nutritious food and its effect of our newborn child health. The coefficient of determination (R Square) is the summary of how well the sample regression line fits the data. The R Square value for pregnant women variation of the hemoglobin in pregnant women was explained by the independent variables such age, income, weight, BMI, parity, blood included in the model respectively.