Assessment Of Maternal Health Literacy And Its Determinants Among Pregnant Women In Amhara Region Northern Ethiopia

Background- Maternal health literacy is a set of cognitive and social skills that define a woman'srnmotivation and capacity to obtain, comprehend, analyze, and apply knowledge to recognize riskrnfactors, taking actions for healthier life style and proper nutrition during pregnancy in order to achievernpositive health outcomes for herself and her children. Maternal health literacy is associated with poorrnhealth outcomes among women and their children, especially in low-income areas. Therefore this studyrnaims to assess maternal health literacy and its determinants on pregnant women attending in thernantenatal care. rnMethod- Facility based cross-sectional study was done at health facilities in west Gojam and southernrnGondar zone. Data was collected from 327 pregnant women who came to health facilities for antenatalrncare. Interviewer administered questionnaires were employed to collect data. Frequencies, proportion,rnwere used to describe findings. Crude odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were considered tornmeasure associations for each variable with the maternal health literacy. Multivariable logisticrnregression was run to identify determinants of maternal health literacy by controlling possiblernconfounders. Assumption of goodness of fit was checked and Statistical significance was determinedrnat p

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