Trial reportPloS one2020
Effect of guided counseling on dietary practices of pregnant women in West Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia.
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The Effect of Guided Counseling in Improving Dietary Practice, Nutritional Status and Birth Weight of Pregnant Women in West Gojjam Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Community Trial
Effectiveness of Culturally Customised Maternal Nutrition Education for Health Professionals in Improving Their Counselling Capacity in Ethiopia
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of Context-Specific Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Interventions in Improving Child Diet in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of nutrition education and counseling intervention on the dietary diversity practice of pregnant women in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Pooled it
- Healthy behavior of pregnant women: review and integrated model conceptualization.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Pooled it
- Food taboos and their perceived reasons among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a systematic review, 2022.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Pooled it
- Interventions to improve infant and young child feeding practices in Ethiopia: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2021Pooled it
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- Effect of double duty interventions on the frequency of morbidity among adolescents in Debre Berhan Regiopolitan City, Ethiopia: a cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Effect of nutrition education integrating the health belief model and theory of planned behavior during pregnancy on gestational weight gain and birth weight in Southeast Ethiopia using complex analyses.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Trial
- Effect of double duty interventions on dietary diversity score of adolescents using a cluster randomized controlled trial in Debre Berhan Regiopolitan City, Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Effect of nutrition education integrating the health belief model and theory of planned behavior on dietary diversity of pregnant women in Southeast Ethiopia: a cluster randomized controlled trial.Nutrition journal · 2024Trial
- Preconception Maternal Mentoring for Improved Fetal Growth among Indonesian Women: Results from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Nutrients · 2023Trial
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- Effects of guided counseling during pregnancy on birth weight of newborns in West Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.BMC pediatrics · 2020Trial
- Optimizing nourishment: nutritional knowledge, practices, and cultural beliefs among postpartum lactating mothers in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Effect of Nutrition Interventions on the Dietary Diversity Status Among Pregnant Women in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Food science & nutrition · 2025Review
- Inadequate dietary diversity practices and associated factors among pregnant adolescents in the West Arsi Zone, Central Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of educational intervention in improving physical activity and nutritional performance among pregnant women: a pre-post quasi-experimental study using health belief model.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024Article
- Development and Psychometric Properties of the Health Belief Model Scale for Premature Birth Prevention (HBM-PBP) for Women of Childbearing Age.International journal of women's health · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of nutrition counseling for pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries to improve maternal and infant behavioral, nutritional, and health outcomes: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2023Review
- Theory-based nutrition education intervention through male involvement improves the dietary diversity practice and nutritional status of pregnant women in rural Illu Aba Bor Zone, Southwest Ethiopia: A quasi-experimental study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn Ethiopia, although nutrition education has been given during pregnancy, most women have inadequate nutrient intakes. As a result, the prevalence of malnutrition is high during pregnancy. In this study, we set out to evaluate the effect of guided counseling based on the health belief model and the theory of planned behavior on the dietary practices of pregnant women.
methodsA two-arm parallel cluster randomized controlled community trial was carried out among pregnant women in West, Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia from May 1, 2018, to April 30, 2019. A total of 346 and 348 pregnant women were recruited from the intervention and control clusters, respectively. Of which endline data were collected from 313 and 332 pregnant women in the intervention and control groups, respectively. Each woman in the intervention group attended four counseling sessions. Women in the control group attended the routine nutrition education given by the health care system. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire. McNemar test and Generalized Estimating Equations were used to evaluate the intervention effect.
resultsThe average difference of appropriate dietary practice between the two groups was 30.7%. After controlling for the possible confounders, women in the intervention group had 7.2 times [AOR = 7.187, 95% CI: (4.49, 11.49)] higher odds of having appropriate dietary practices compared with the control group. Dietary diversity and meal frequency of counseled women were 7 [AOR = 6.994, 95% CI: (4.59, 10.66)] and 8 [AOR = 8.146, 95% CI: (5.377, 12.341)] times higher than dietary diversity and meal frequency of women in the control group, respectively.
conclusionCounseling based on the health belief model and the theory of planned behavior is an effective approach in increasing the proportion of women who had appropriate dietary practices. Thus, these findings suggest the need for employing trimester based counseling using the HBM and the TPB to improve the dietary practices of pregnant women.
trial registrationThe trial was registered in Clinical Trials.gov (NCT03627156).
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