The Relationship Between Nutritional Patterns and Pregnant Adolescents Outcomes

Abstract

Objectives: To find out the relationship between nutritional intake and the outcomes of pregnant adolescents.

Methods: A Descriptive design was carried out at Primary Health Care Centers in Al-Diwaniyah City from 5 of January 2024 to 27 of February 2024. A non-probability (purposive) sample of 100 pregnant adolescents who Visit Primary Health Care Centers to Obtain Health Care was selected by Interview of pregnant and show questioner and take social and personal demographic information and relying on a questionnaire, nutritional health was evaluated. Special interviews are conducted with directors of primary health care centers to explain the importance, objectives of the study and the data. addition, Data is collected through the use of a questionnaire and interviewing pregnant teenagers after they agree to be interviewed individually and confidentially for scientific research purposes only.

Result: The study concluded that there are pregnant women as young as 15 years old and that there is a moderate association between adolescent pregnancies and their nutritional patterns.

Conclusion: The pregnant adolescent in Diwaniyah City's primary health care health centers was patterns of Middling Nourishment.

Recommendation: the health ministries must educate anticipating mothers about nutrition and Support the idea to give information to new mothers in an in understood about healthy nutrition.