Factors Predicting Preconceptive Nutritional Preparation Behavior in Pregnant Woman with Anemia
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Preconceptive nutritional preparation behavior can prevent anemia pregnancy. This predictive research aimed to explore preconceptive nutritional preparation behavior, and examine predicting factors of this behavior. 180 pregnant women with anemia visiting antenatal care clinic at tertiary care hospitals in the 3rd public health region were recruited by a simple random sampling. Research instruments composed of personal information, preconceptive nutritional preparation behavior, perceived risk of anemia in pregnancy, perceived severity of anemia pregnancy, perceived benefit of preconceptive nutritional preparation behavior, perceived barriers of preconceptive nutritional preparation behavior, and nutritional knowledge questionnaires. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, and stepwise multiple regression statistics.
The results showed that participants had moderate mean scores of preconceptive nutritional preparation behavior (= 32.68, SD = 8.29). Factors predicting preconceptive included nutritional knowledge (β = .278, p < .001), perceived risk of anemia in pregnancy (β = .268, p < .001), and perceived barriers of preconceptive nutritional preparation behavior (β = .176, p < .05), and all of them explained 22% of the variance in preconceptive nutritional preparation behavior. But perceived severity of anemia and perceived benefits of preconceptive nutritional preparation behavior could not predict.
Findings recommend nursing practices for maternity nurses to educate the reproductive women about nutrition for prevention anemia and encourage them to perceive the risks of anemia in pregnancy, as well as, decrease their obstacles to perform preconceptive nutritional preparation behavior.
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