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Nutrition Education Program in Nigeria FINDINGS Overview This study eval

This study evaluated a researcher-designed nutrition education program developed for use with a sample of already pregnant Nigerian females. The conducted evaluation compared a group of expectant mothers exposed to the program (experimental group) to a group of expectant mothers not exposed to the program (control group) in order to determine whether the designed program: (1) elevated the birth weight of infants; (2) improved mothers' eating habits; (3) improved mothers' health beliefs; and (4) lowered the rate of infant mortality. All of the expectant mothers serving as sample subjects were drawn from the Onikan Health Clinic located in Nigeria.

The findings observed for all analyses performed on collected data are presented in this chapter of the study. To provide background context to the conducted analyses, the chapter also presents a brief description of the Onikan Health Center as a well as demographic profile of the two groups of expected mothers (experimental and control) and of the sample as a whole. Further, a descriptive analysis of the experimental group's attitudes toward the designed program is also presented.

Description of the Onikan Health Center

The Onikan Health Center is a moderately sized facility providing public health care to Nigerian mothers living in surrounding townships, cities, and villages. The Center has a staff and administrative complement of 160 people with 10 of these positions being administrative, 100 being public health positions, and 10 being positions that specifically deal with infant and maternal health issues. In other words, the staff devoted to infant/maternal health is relatively low.

Possibly because of the relatively low availability of staff for infant/maternal health matters, the incidence of low birth-weight among women receiving prenatal health care at the Center has been relatively high. This can be seen in Table 1 which presents the average birth weight data ...

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