Relationships of Mother Knowledge About Nutrition with Change of Weight Children Age 2–5 Years in Integrated Healthcare Center Sakura, Sawit Miri, Panggungharjo, Sewon, Bantul

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knowledge and change in body weight

Abstract

The Quality of children today is a determinant of the quality of human resources (HR) in the future. Human development in the future begins with the development of today’s children. Lack of knowledge about nutrition or the knowledge to apply information obtained in daily life is an important factor in malnutrition. The views and beliefs of the community, especially mothers about nutrition must be considered as part of several causal factors related to their food consumption. From a preliminary study that researchers from interviews with 15 mothers of toddlers with toddlers aged 2–5 years, it turns out that data obtained from the 15 toddlers there are 7 toddlers who in one month their weight has not changed and 8 toddlers have changed (weight gain). Purpose: To Know the relationship between mother’s knowledge about nutrition and the weight changes of children aged 2–5 years at Integrated Healthcare Center Sakura, Miri Sawit, Panggungharjo, Sewon, Bantul. Method: This research uses descriptive analytic method, with cross sectional approach. The population in this study all mothers who have children aged 2–5 years. The total population in this study was 80 mothers, samples taken by accidental sampling with a sample size of 50 respondents. Retrieval of maternal knowledge data using questionnaires, weight data with weight weighing. Result: The analysis result using Chi square test results calculated X2 value of 27.315 with sig (pvaiue) of 0,000. With df-4 and the significance level of 5% (0.05), X2type = 9,488. Because X2count > X2tabet and p value < 0.05 then H0 is rejected. This means that there is a strong relationship between knowledge about nutrition and children’s weight at the Integrated Healthcare Center Sakura. Conclusion: There is a relationship between knowledge about nutrition with a child’s weight at the Sakura Integrated Healthcare Center.

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BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 ‘AISYIYAH International Conference on Health and Medical Sciences (A-HMS 2022)
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