Dietary Diversity and Its Associated Factors Among High School Adolescent Girls in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2025.

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Europe PMCPublished 2026Nutrition, Aging & LongevityNutrition & Metabolic Health
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Public health challenges
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BackgroundDietary diversity (DD) assesses the access and consumption of varieties of food types, there are few studies conducted on DD, the current study targeted adolescent girls in high schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.ObjectiveTo assess the magnitude of DD and its associated factors among high school adolescent girls in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.MethodsAn institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 621 female adolescents from May 1 to 30, 2025. A multistage sampling technique was used to select study participants. The data were entered into epi-data version 3.1 and were exported to SPSS version 25. Variables were screened using the bivariable logistic regression analysis model. Those candidate variables having p value ≤ 0.25 were exported to the multivariable logistic analysis. Statistical significance was declared if p 
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