Perbedaan Status Gizi Anak Usia Balita yang Diasuh Orang Tua dan Pembantu Rumah Tangga di Kelurahan Kepatihan Kabupaten Jember
Abstract
Toddlers are children who are in the age range of 1-5 years and are in a unique
growth and development process. Toddlers are one of the vulnerable groups of
nutrition. Nutritionally vulnerable groups are defined as a group in the
community that is most easily suffering from health problems or vulnerable due to
malnutrition.Nutritional intake obtained by toddlers is one of the important
factors that can affect the development of them. To support normal physical
growth and development, optimal nutritional intake is also needed, because
individual health can be determined from its nutritional status. This research was
analytic survey with cross sectional method. The sampel for this research was 94
child elderly collected by quota sampling technique. This research used chi
square test which obtain p value = 0,276 (α = 0,05). The results of the data
analysis showed that the nutritional status of children who mothered by parents
was 59.6% (28 toddlers) with good nutritional status and the remaining 40.4%
(19 toddlers) had problems with malnutrition, less and more. While the nutritional
status of children who mothered by the housemaid was 42.6% (20 toddlers) with
good nutritional status and the remaining 57.4% (27 toddlers) had problems with
malnutrition, less and more (p value = 0.276> α = 0, 05)).
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