Author

Sunarto Kadir

Subject

- Kesehatan

Abstract

Children’s nutritional status refers to the condition of children’s health based on the needs of their physical energy and other nutrition from foods. The physical impact regarding nutritional status is measured through anthropometry. This raises a question whether the socio-economy and socio-cultural condition affect children’s nutritional status in which later acts as the aim of this study. This observational analytic research employed the cross-sectional study approach. The population of this research involves all 1966 women in the working area of the Kabila community health center (puskesmas); the total population of the children is 300. Furthermore, the Chi-Square test was applied to analyze the data. The results reveal that there is an interrelation between women’s ccupation and children’s nutritional status, p-value 0.048; similarly, women’s knowledge p-value=0.05, as well as tradition and habitual action p-value=0.036 also contributes to the nutritional status. On the contrary, personal belief’s does not influence the nutritional status of the children, p-value=0.409. In other words, the socio-economy and socio-cultural condition of women plays a major role in shaping children’s nutritional status. However, this does not apply to the indicator of personal beliefs. It is expected that the nutrition officers to conduct workshops or seminars to raise the awareness and the contribution of the community towards the nutritional issue. Keywords: Children’s Nutritional Status, Socio-Economy, Socio-cultural

Publisher

FOK UNG

Contributor

-

Publish

2017

Material Type

PROSIDING

Right

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