Association between Health Literacy and Diet in Women of Reproductive Age

10.30207/AHLA.202312.0047

Ratu Dien Prima Fermeza；Tri Sutanti Puji Hartati；Tsamara Alifia Ramadhani；Emyr Reisha Isaura

Health Literacy ； Reproductive-Age Women ； Diet

The Proceeding of the 9th AHLA International Health Literacy Conference: Health Literacy and Social Resilience

2023（2023 / 12 / 01）

49 - 49

英文

Background: The number of newborn mortalities in Indonesia is 72.400 in a year-the eight highest number of neonatal deaths globally, caused by abnormalities in pregnancy, preterm birth, and low birth weight that are preventable if health coverage gets along with good quality service. The anemia cases increased in pregnant women from 37.1% to 48.9% and more than a quarter of children under five have anemia (28%) because the intervention coverage is still based on quantity. Although the government has set the quality of specific intervention indicators by measuring target adherence to the given intervention in 2021, increased compliance is carried out through strengthening education and community empowerment. Objective: Our study aimed to analyze the role of health literacy and diet in reproductive-age women. Methods: This research used analytics review research method using English full-text articles using Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, and Science Direct later than March 31^(st), 2023. Results: A few women of reproductive age acknowledged that overeating (18.2%) and drastically diet (61.2%) may affect fertility. They did not know the essentials of micronutrients (15.5%), such as vitamins and iron-related foods can be affected during pregnancy. Pregnant women were less capable of selecting the daily-recommended nutritional food groups (70.8%). Seventy percent of the newly-delivered mothers had inadequate HL to prepare a balanced diet. Higher HL scores consumed significantly more vegetables (β = 0.17, p < 0.05) and fish and shellfish (β = 0.24, p < 0.001), and HL was able to predict 57% of the dispersion of pregnancy outcomes scores. Conclusion: Health literacy is associated with dietary of reproductive-age women that may affect fertility and pregnancy outcomes. The government needs to develop policies and programs to improve HL for preconception women to prevent the occurrence of negative-pregnancy outcomes.