Research Article
Minimum Dietary Diversity Score and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women at Alamata General Hospital, Raya Azebo Zone, Tigray Region, Ethiopia
Table 2
Consumption of food groups, food security, and comorbidity status of study participants in MCH at AGH, Alamata town, 2017 (
).
| Variable | Frequency | Percentage |
| Starchy staples | | | Yes | 406 | 98.5 | No | 6 | 1.5 | Vitamin A-rich fruit and vegetable | | | Yes | 168 | 40.8 | No | 244 | 59.2 | Other vegetables | | | Yes | 336 | 81.6 | No | 76 | 18.4 | Dark green leaf vegetable | | | Yes | 348 | 84.5 | No | 64 | 15.5 | Fruit | | | Yes | 92 | 22.3 | No | 320 | 77.7 | Meat, poultry, and fish | | | Yes | 131 | 31.8 | No | 281 | 68.2 | Egg | | | Yes | 141 | 34.2 | No | 271 | 65.8 | Pulses | | | Yes | 213 | 51.7 | No | 199 | 48.3 | Dairy | | | Yes | 203 | 49.3 | No | 209 | 50.7 | Nuts and seeds | | | Yes | 221 | 53.6 | No | 191 | 46.4 | Dietary diversity | | | High dietary diversity | 252 | 61.2 | Low dietary diversity | 160 | 38.8 | Food security status | | | Food secured | 281 | 68.2 | Food unsecured without hunger food | 123 | 29.9 | Unsecured with hunger | 8 | 1.9 | Food eating pattern | | | Three meals and above | 102 | 24.8 | Two meals and eating between meal | 295 | 71.6 | Two meals only or below | 15 | 3.6 | Illness in last 4 week before assessment | | | Yes | 54 | 13.1 | No | 358 | 86.9 | Types of illness | | | Malaria | 191 | 46.4 | HIV/AIDS | 198 | 48.0 | Others | 23 | 5.6 |
|
|
Others: tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus.
|