TY - JOUR
T1 - Co-occurrence of iron, folate, and vitamin A deficiency among pregnant women in eastern Ethiopia
T2 - a community-based study
AU - Fite, Meseret Belete
AU - Tura, Abera Kenay
AU - Yadeta, Tesfaye Assebe
AU - Oljira, Lemessa
AU - Wilfong, Tara
AU - Mamme, Newas Yusuf
AU - Asefa, Gemechu
AU - Gurmu, Demiraw Bikila
AU - Habtu, Wossene
AU - Waka, Feyissa Challa
AU - Demiss, Nahom Tefera
AU - Woldeyohannes, Meseret
AU - Tessema, Masresha
AU - Alemayehu, Dawit
AU - Hassen, Tahir Ahmed
AU - Motuma, Aboma
AU - Roba, Kedir Teji
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to express our sincere appreciation to Haramaya University for funding this study. Special thanks go to the Haramaya District health office staff for their enormous support during the data collection period. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Ethiopian Public Health Institute for determining the biochemical parameters included in this paper. Finally, we like to thank all the women who participated in the study, data collectors, and supervisors. Using this opportunity we want to acknowledge that the abstract of this paper is has been published recently on EPHA Conference Systems, 34th EPHA Annual Conference on the following links: https://conference.etpha.org/index.php/34thConference/34thConference/paper/view/3618
Funding Information:
We would like to express our sincere appreciation to Haramaya University for funding this study. Special thanks go to the Haramaya District health office staff for their enormous support during the data collection period. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Ethiopian Public Health Institute for determining the biochemical parameters included in this paper. Finally, we like to thank all the women who participated in the study, data collectors, and supervisors. Using this opportunity we want to acknowledge that the abstract of this paper is has been published recently on EPHA Conference Systems, 34th EPHA Annual Conference on the following links: https://conference.etpha.org/index.php/34thConference/34thConference/paper/view/3618
Funding Information:
This study was funded by Haramaya University with grant number 223/2020. The funder has no role in the conception, design of the study, statistical analysis, result interpretation, manuscript writing, or the decision for publication.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/6/23
Y1 - 2023/6/23
N2 - Background: It is well known that the magnitude of undernutrition in Ethiopia is unacceptably high. The burden of co-occurrence of iron, folate, and vitamin A deficiency, on the other hand, has received less attention. Thus, in this study, we looked at the prevalence of iron, folate, and vitamin A deficiency in pregnant women in eastern Ethiopia.Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 397 pregnant women in Haramaya district, eastern Ethiopia. An interview-assisted questionnaire and blood serum were collected from pregnant women using standard techniques and shipped to an EPHI for micronutrient analysis. Factors associated with the co-occurrence of iron, folate, and vitamin A deficiency were identified using binary and multiple logistic regressions.Results: According to this study, 81.6% of the participants were deficient in at least one micronutrient, and 53.53.2% were deficient in two or more. Women who did not receive iron-folic acid supplementation (AOR = 2.44; 95% CI = 1.52–3.92), did not attend Antenatal care (ANC) follow up (AOR = 2.88; 95% CI = 1.81–4.61), and reported low consumption of diversified diet (AOR = 2.18 (95% CI = 1.35–3.51) had a higher risk of co-occurrence of iron, folate, and vitamin A deficiency.Conclusion: This study found that more than half of pregnant women were in multiple micronutrients, indicating a major public health issue. In addition to the IFA supplementation programs that are already in place, there is a need for multiple micronutrient supplementation.
AB - Background: It is well known that the magnitude of undernutrition in Ethiopia is unacceptably high. The burden of co-occurrence of iron, folate, and vitamin A deficiency, on the other hand, has received less attention. Thus, in this study, we looked at the prevalence of iron, folate, and vitamin A deficiency in pregnant women in eastern Ethiopia.Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 397 pregnant women in Haramaya district, eastern Ethiopia. An interview-assisted questionnaire and blood serum were collected from pregnant women using standard techniques and shipped to an EPHI for micronutrient analysis. Factors associated with the co-occurrence of iron, folate, and vitamin A deficiency were identified using binary and multiple logistic regressions.Results: According to this study, 81.6% of the participants were deficient in at least one micronutrient, and 53.53.2% were deficient in two or more. Women who did not receive iron-folic acid supplementation (AOR = 2.44; 95% CI = 1.52–3.92), did not attend Antenatal care (ANC) follow up (AOR = 2.88; 95% CI = 1.81–4.61), and reported low consumption of diversified diet (AOR = 2.18 (95% CI = 1.35–3.51) had a higher risk of co-occurrence of iron, folate, and vitamin A deficiency.Conclusion: This study found that more than half of pregnant women were in multiple micronutrients, indicating a major public health issue. In addition to the IFA supplementation programs that are already in place, there is a need for multiple micronutrient supplementation.
KW - Co-occurrence
KW - Ethiopia
KW - Ferritin
KW - Micronutrient deficiency
KW - Pregnant women
KW - Retinol
KW - Vitamin A
U2 - 10.1186/s40795-023-00724-x
DO - 10.1186/s40795-023-00724-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85162948673
SN - 2055-0928
VL - 9
JO - BMC Nutrition
JF - BMC Nutrition
M1 - 72
ER -