ABSTRACT

THE RELATED FACTORS TO NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF TODDLER AT

WORKING AREA OF BATU ANAM HEALTH CENTER IN 2018

BETTY SILALAHI
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S1 Nutrition Study Program of Helvetia Health Institute

WHO sets a tolerance limit for stunting (short stature) to a maximum of 20

percent or one fifth of the total number of toddler. The government and the
community made various efforts in accordance with Presidential Regulation No.
42 of 2013 concerning National Movement to Accelerate Nutrition Improvement.
National prevalence of malnutrition in children under five is 5.4%, and
malnutrition in under-five children is 13.0%. Both show that both the target
Medium Term Development Plan for the achievement of nutrition improvement
programs (20%), and the Millennium Development Goals target in 2015 (18.5%)
have been achieved in 2007. The description of the nutritional condition of
children under five begins with a sufficient number of low birth weight babies.
Every year, there are an estimated 350,000 babies with low birth weight below
2500 grams. The purpose of this study was to determine the related factors to the
nutritional status of toddler at Working Area of Batu Anam Health Center in
2018.
The research method used was the research design used was
Observational with Cross Sectional Study approach that was to determine the
relationship of maternal knowledge, income of the head of household, and
frequency of eating with nutritional status of toddler observed in the same time
period. The sampling technique was accidental sampling so obtained a sample of
48 toddlers.
The results showed that of the 48 caregivers who had sufficient nutrition
knowledge as many as 37 people (77%), who had enough family heads income as
many as 22 people (45.8%), toddlers who had enough eating frequency as many
as 33 children (68.7% ), who did not have a history of infectious diseases as many
as 39 people (81.3%). Based on statistical tests, there was a relationship between
the history of infectious diseases and nutritional status of children with p value
(0.010).
The conclusion of this study shows that there was no correlation between
caregiver nutrition knowledge, head of household income, frequency of eating
with nutritional status of toddlers and there was a relationship of history of
infectious diseases with nutritional status of toddler.

Keywords: Knowledge, Income, Frequency of Eating, History of Illness,

Toddlers, Nutritional Status.

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