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Relationship of Mother’s Knowledge on Nutrition and Feeding Pattern with Malnutrition Incidencein Children Under Five Years Old at Panti’s Health Center

Amanda Henrika Avelina
Studies Program Clinical Nutrition
Department of Health

ABSTRACT

Nutrition is one of the important factors for determining the quality of human resources. Toddlers are a group that prone to malnutrition. At this age, the brain growth is still going rapidly. Lack of knowledge about nutrition will result in reduced ability to apply information everyday, this can causing malnutrition case. Nutrition knowledge is knowledge about food and nutrition, the sources of the nutrients in the food. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of mother knowledge about nutrition and feeding pattern with the incidence of malnutrition in children under five years old at Panti’s Health Center. The research was conducted in November 2017 - December 2017. Metode that used ini this research is analytic survey with cross sectional approach. The sample size in this study is 71 infants and use cluster random sampling as a sampling technique. Statistical analysis of this research using SPSS 16.0 for Windows with Chi Square Test as a correlation. The conclusion indicates that there is a relationship of mother knowledge about nutrition (p = 0.04), feeding pattern (p = 0.011) in the malnutrition incidence inchildren under five years old at Panti’s Health Center.

Keywords: Feeding Pattern, Malnutrition, Mother’s Knowledge