ArticleFood science & nutrition2023
The effect of nutrition and health behavior change communication through community-level actors on the nutritional status of pregnant women in the Ambo district, Ethiopia: A randomized controlled trial.
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- 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
- The effect of nutrition education and counseling on the nutritional status of pregnant women in Ethiopia, 2025: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of nutrition education on the nutritional status of pregnant women in Robe and Goba Towns, Southeast Ethiopia, using a cluster randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Effect of Nutrition Interventions on the Dietary Diversity Status Among Pregnant Women in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Food science & nutrition · 2025Review
- Effect of nutrition behavior change communication on nutrition knowledge and dietary practices of pregnant adolescents in West Arsi, Central Ethiopia: a cluster randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Health-promoting lifestyle behaviors and their associated factors among pregnant women in Debre Markos, northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024Article
- Effects of food price on nutrition outcomes among women in Nigeria.Food science & nutrition · 2024Article
- The effect of nutrition and health behavior change communication through community-level actors on the nutritional status of pregnant women in the Ambo district, Ethiopia: A randomized controlled trial.Food science & nutrition · 2023Article
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Abstract
Pregnant women in Ethiopia often had trouble understanding the normal nutrition and health information given by health professionals and found it inconsistent. Undernutrition is still a significant public health problem as a result. Hence, this trial aimed to assess the effect of nutrition and health behavior change communication using the community-level actors on the nutritional status of pregnant women. Cluster-randomized controlled community trial with baseline and endline measurements were used. Endpoint data from 744 pregnant women (372 intervention and 372 control groups) were gathered, respectively. In the intervention group, the community-level actors delivered the behavior change communication main message based on intervention protocol. The control group got nutrition information during their ANC visits but did not receive the behavior change communication intervention. Binary generalized estimating equations regression analyses adjusted for baseline covariates were used to test effects of the intervention on nutritional status. Following the trial's implementation, the prevalence of undernutrition in the intervention arm fell by 10% from the baseline (23.7% vs. 13.7%) and was 13.7% lower than in the control arm (13.7% vs. 27.4%,
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