Farnoush Fallah|Ahmad Pourabbas|Ali Delpisheh|Yousef Veisani|Mahdi Shadnoush
Effects of Nutrition Education on Levels of Nutritional Awareness of Pregnant Women in Western Iran
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences|Tabriz University of Medical Sciences|Ilam University|Medical University of Ilam|Ilam University|Medical University of Ilam|Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
maternal nutritional health pregnancy influences health status developing fetus pregnancy important condition improving nutritional knowledgethe present study aimed determining effects nutrition education levels nutritional awareness representative group pregnant women western irana quasiexperimental intervention undertaken random sample pregnant women n 100 attending urban health centers ilam city western iran year 2011 prenatal care nutritional education program containing two four lessons undertaken small groups six ten women nutritional knowledge assessed intervention pretest followed two posttests within three weeks intervalthe awareness level pregnant women healthy nutrition significantly increased 3 intervention 31 nutritional education intervention p 0001 significant difference independent maternal characteristics age levels literacy obese mothers particulara nutritional education intervention positive effect nutritional awareness pregnant women