FACTORS RELATED WITH EVENTS OF MALNUTRITION ON TODDLER IN REGION SOROPIA HEALTH CENTER WORK

Abstrak

Nutritional problems are one of the public health problems. Nutritional status as indicator that can describe health conditions that are influenced by the intake and utilization of nutrients in the body. Toddlers are a group that is vulnerable to malnutrition problems. This study aims to determine the relationship between knowledge, exclusive breastfeeding and the incidence of malnutrition in children under five in the Soropia Health Center Work Area. This research is an observational analytic study with a cross sectional study design. The sample used is toddlers aged 12-59 months totaling 70 toddlers. The effect variable in this study was the incidence of malnutrition while the independent variables were knowledge, exclusive breastfeeding and health services. The sampling technique used probability sampling with random sampling technique with the collected data then analyzed by Chisquare test. The results of data analysis showed that there was a relationship between exclusive breastfeeding and the nutritional status of children under five (p = 0.038) and there was no relationship between mother’s knowledge with nutritional status of toddler (p = 0.358)