Volume 25 , Issue 1 , June 2023 , Pages 41-47
Shwan Assad Qadir 1 ; Mahabat Hassan Saeed 2 ; Cheeman Salih Kakabra 1 ; Livyar Latif Ahmad 1
1 Department of Community Health Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq
2 Department of Maternal Neonate Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq
Background: In the antenatal period, the nutritional demand of women upsurges to
compensate for physiological and psychological changes and nutritional computations
by the growing fetus for energy, macro, and micronutrients. Nutrition knowledge is
essential in conscious of ample nutrition intake among pregnant women. Objective: This
study aimed to assess pregnant women’s knowledge of healthy nutrition Materials and
Methods: The non-probability convenient method was used as the sampling technique
in this descriptive study. The process of data collection was continued from 26th July
2022 to 26th September 2022. A hundred women were selected from Shahid Hama Rash
Primary Health Center, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq. A well-designed questionnaire was
constructed, in which its first part includes sociodemographic characteristics and the
second part includes questions regarding participants' knowledge. Results: We showed
that 82% of participants had good knowledge, as well as 18% of them, had fair knowledge
regarding healthy nutrition. At the same time, none of the pregnant women had poor
knowledge. Conclusions: We concluded that most study participants had good
knowledge, and no significant association was found between knowledge of pregnant
mothers and their sociodemographic variables.