آگاهي نگرش و عملكرد زنان باردار مراجعه كننده به بيمارستانهاي دانشگاهي شهر تهران در مورد تغذيه دوران بارداري

Pregnancy is the great physiological stress during of womenʹs life and cause the most important change in their biological state. This physiological stress arising from fetus needs and thus increase pregnant women requirment to energy and nutrients in comparsion with non-pregnant women. Nutritional continious training caused increase of women knowledge by additional foods side, for poor mother, provide mathernal and child health, so this survey has been done to determine knowledge rate, attitude and practices of pregnant women in Tehran, nutritional knowledge, attitude and practices in 315 pregnant women were assessed in ten hospitalʹ of Tehran. A structured questionnaire was used for this purpose. This research showed, 60% of women had low level nutritional knowledge. In the attitude part of this research data showed 71.4% of women had positive attitude toward changes to improve the quality of their diet, and 87.6% of women had positive attitude toward dairy consumption eating druing pregnancy. But 69.8% of women had negative attitude about iron supplement. There was significant relation between level of education and attitude toward iron supplement. Nutritional kowledge of pregnant women is weak so that the effects in thier practice. Therefore nutritional training is necessary during pregnancy by physician.