Hubungan Perilaku Manajemen Keluarga dengan Status gizi pada Usia Anak Toddler

Abstract

Nutritional status is important for growth and development during toddler family management behavior takes a significant key important role to manage the provision of nutritional intake for children. The aimed of this study focused on analyzing wast to identify correlation between family management behavior and nutritional status among toddler age. Cross-sectional study was performed among 101 using cluster random sampling technique during February 2019 in Puskesmas Panti. Body weight and height were calculated using – scale and medline for measuring nutritional status. The Family Asessment Management Mesure (FAMM) was used to measure understanding of family management behavior. Data analysis was used Chi-Square. This results showed that majority of family management behavior was moderate (59.4%) and nutritional status of toddlers was normal (72.3%). There was a significant correlation between family management behavior and nutritional status among toddlers (χ2=25.58; p =< 0.001). More low quality of family management behavior, more low nutritional statu among toddlers. Therefore,health counseling should be intervention improvement of family management behavior to enchance nutritional status among toddlers.