Table 3. Individual characteristics of pregnant adolescents and young women in Gulu regional referral hospital and St Mary’s Hospital Lacor.
| Variable | Undernutrition | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | ALL | p-value | |
| 283 (87.3%) | 41 (12.7%) | 324 (100.0%) | ||
| Have you changed from the time you became pregnant? * | ||||
| Yes | 137 (48.8%) | 13 (31.7%) | 150 (46.6%) | 0.041 |
| No | 144 (51.2%) | 28 (68.3%) | 172 (53.4%) | |
| Do you use family planning to space your children? | ||||
| Yes | 110 (39.0%) | 13 (31.7%) | 123 (38.1%) | 0.368 |
| No | 172 (61.0%) | 28 (68.3%) | 200 (61.9%) | |
| Have you been receiving iron(brown) tablets during hospital? | ||||
| Yes | 215 (76.2%) | 29 (70.7%) | 244 (75.5%) | 0.443 |
| No | 67 (23.8%) | 12 (29.3%) | 79 (24.5%) | |
| How long do you take before you deliver another child? Mean (standard deviation) | 1.693 (1.840) | 1.512 (1.690) | 1.670 (1.820) | 0.554 |
* = The changes include the change in pre-pregnancy diet, weight and physiological changes