PERBEDAAN STATUS GIZI DAN STATUS INFEKSI BAYI (6-11 BULAN) YANG DIBERI ASI EKSKLUSIF DENGAN YANG DIBERI SUSU FORMULA (Studi di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Arjasa Kabupaten Jember)

Abstract

Exclusive breastfeed is the best natural nutrition for infants with the most proper nutrition content to help them grow optimally. Recently, it has been taken over by formulated milk. The intake of formulated milk may affect the infant’s nutritional status as well as its infection’s status. The most commonly known form of infection to infants with formulated milk is diarrhea. The objective of this research is finding out the variation on the nutrition and infection status of the infants with exclusive breastfeed compared to those with formulated milk intake. This research is an observational analytical descriptive one, with cross sectional design. This research involves 148 infants as its sample. To find out the infant’s nutrition status, a measure is performed on the infant’s weight and length, followed by conducting chi-square testing. Questions regarding the incidence of infections (if any), during the recent months are asked afterwards, followed by another chi-square testing to observe the variation. The result confirms the variation on nutrition status, as shown by the pvalue of 0.000 (p<0.05). Regarding the infection status of the infants with exclusive breastfeed and those with formulated milk intake, a significant variation is generated as shown by the p-value of 0.000 (p<0.05). The conclusion of this research states that the variation on the nutrition status and the infection status of the infants with exclusive breastfeed and formulated milk intake exists, respectively.