Background: Globally, anemia is the commonest nutritional deficiency all over the world and affecting approximately 55 to 65% of total population. According to WHO,Iron deficiency Anemiais highly prevalent among pregnant women and multiple factors showed strong relationship. The main objective was to assess the frequency of anemia and its various risk factors amongpregnantwomenvisiting health facilities in District Nowshera. Methods: After taking ethical approval, a descriptive cross sectional study was conducted from March to July 2018, in the health facilities of district Nowshera among n=169 permanent resident pregnant female populations, of age above 17 years. Woman was termed as anemic if the HB level is below 11gm/ dl. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data and analyzed by SPSS version 19.0 and finally the results were presented in form of tables.
Results: The results showed that 59.76% of pregnant female wasanemic. 40.83% had monthly income less than 15000 per month, 55.03% were housewives, 44.38% were illiterate, 47.93% had 3 or 4 children, 41.425 were under-weight, and only 28.99% followed balanced diet. Moreover, 54.44%, 33.14%, 81.64%, and 44.38% had poor personnel hygiene, take nutritional supplements, took 1 to 2 meals per day, and didn’t take meat weekly respectively. Conclusions: It was concluded that the frequency of anemia among pregnant women visiting health care facility was high and showed strong relationship with poor socioeconomic conditions, poor personnel hygiene, lack of nutrition, medical conditions, meat and fruits consumption and health status of pregnant mothers and thus effective Maternal &Child Health services were needed to reduce morbidity and mortality and its associated complications among mothers and infants. Key Words: Anemia, Female, Rural, Diet, Health Facility, Nowshera.
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