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Background: Early childhood age is an age that is susceptible to various
diseases, including those caused by a lack or excess of certain types of nutrition.
A person's nutritional status depends on nutritional intake and needs. Early
childhood food intake can affect nutritional status. Lack of body weight according
to age can be an indication that toddlers have poor nutritional status. The main
food intake in newborns is breast milk. Exclusive breastfeeding allows children to
have a better nutritional status. Birth weight, especially LBW, can be a predictor
of underweight cases.
Objective: Aims to determine the relationship between food intake, exclusive
breastfeeding, and birth weight on the nutritional status of early childhood of
aged 24-59 months in Pesantunan Village.
Methods: This type of research is observational with a cross sectional approach.
The research instrument was a questionnaire and weight measurement. The
number of research samples was 80 children under five from 290 population.
Sampling used cluster random sampling method by applying one stage simple
cluster sampling. Statistical test using Chi Square test.
Result: The results of the Chi-Square test are variable energy intake to nutritional
status 0.795, protein intake to nutritional status 1,000, fat intake to nutritional
status 1,000, carbohydrate intake to nutritional status 0.508, exclusive
breastfeeding to nutritional status 0.085, birth weight to nutritional status 0.046.
Conclusion: From the results of the analysis, it was found that there was a
relationship between birth weight of early childhood, and there was no
relationship between exclusive breastfeeding and food intake of total energy,
protein, fat, and carbohydrates on the nutritional status of early childhood. |
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