E. E. Uko-Aviomoh

This study investigated the awareness of good nutrition before and during pregnancy among women for mother and child health in Ughelli North Local Government, Delta State. Ten (10) research questions were raised to guide the study and six (6) null hypotheses were formulated and tested. The descriptive survey design was adopted in the study. The population consisted of all registered pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in all the thirty (30) public health centers in Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State. The sample of the study consist of 182 pregnant women. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used for the selection of the sample. In order to achieve the objectives of this study, a three-sectioned structured questionnaire was validated by the researcher supervisor and two data expert and reliability was ascerted using the cronbach alpha statistics with respective reliability coefficients of 0.78, 0.74, and 0,75 which yielded a mean cronbach alpha coefficient of 0.77 was administered to the selected pregnant women. Data collected were analysed and all the hypotheses were tested using both descriptive and inferential statistics of mean, standard deviation, mean difference and one-way Analysis of variance (ANOVA).