Background: Addressing the nutritional problems of adolescent girls is important as their nutritional status has a negative effect on the future generation. However, the evidence revealed the variation and unrelated data on the prevalence of dietary diversity and lack of including all adolescent age and community groups in Ethiopia. Hence, this study assessed dietary diversity and associated factors among adolescent girls in Nifas Silk Laphto Sub-city, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Outpatient therapeutic program (OTP) brings the services for the management of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) closer to the community by making services available at decentralized treatment points within the primary health care setting. Despite the available interventions to tackle nutritional problems, there is scarce information on time to recovery and its predictors. Therefore, the aim of this study was to estimate time to recovery and identify its predictors among children aged 6-59 month with SAM admitted to OTP in Bench Sheko zone Southwest Ethiopia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: little is known about antenatal care (ANC) utilization difference among food secure and food insecure household pregnant women and factors contributing to inequities in antenatal care use in developing country including Ethiopia. To determine the disparities in the utilization of antenatal care that exists between pregnant women in food secure and food insecure household women.
Methods: a community based comparative cross-sectional study was conducted in Gombora District, Hadiya zone, southern Ethiopia.
Background: Violence by intimate partner during pregnancy has many adverse pregnancy outcomes. Thus, that's why we sought to determine association between intimate partner violence during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes.
Methods: A facility based cross-sectional study was conducted among 183 recently delivered women from March 31-April 30, 2014 in public health facilities of Hossana Town.
Background: Globally, overweight is rapidly becoming one of the most important medical and public health problems. Adolescent obesity is a multisystem disease with potentially devastating consequences that persist into adulthood. However, there is a paucity of available information regarding the adolescent overweight and obesity in Ethiopia, particularly in the study area.
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