Role of Hearth Program with Undernutrition Incidence among Toddlers in Tangerang City
Journal Title: Kesmas: National Public Health Journal - Year 2016, Vol 11, Issue 1
Abstract
Toddler is a group at risk of undernutrition in which World Health Organization stated that toddler mortality because of undernutrition was 54% in 2002. In Indonesia, its prevalence increased from 17.9% in 2010 to 19.6% in 2013. In Tangerang City, there was 1.43% of toddlers suffering from undernutrition in 2013. This study aimed to prove in valid the relation between Hearth Program, which covered behaviors of food providing, toddler’s hygiene, health care seeking and toddler parenting, with undernutrition incidence among toddlers. This study was quantitative, cross-sectional, using primary data, analyzed in univariate, bivariate and multivariate within September 2015. Samples were taken by total sampling as many as 60 toddlers suffering from undernutrition in Tangerang City. Results showed that 12 (20%) of 60 toddlers suffered from very underweight nutrition and the remaining 48 toddlers (80%) suffered from underweight nutrition. There was a relation between food-providing behavior and health-care seeking behavior with undernutrition among toddlers. Variable food-providing behavior was the dominant factor influencing undernutrition among toddlers with OR = 4.655 (CI = 1.052 – 20.6) after controlled by the variable health care-seeking behavior
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Gizella Gizella, Dany Hilmanto, Dedi Rachmadi
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- DOI 10.21109/kesmas.v11i1.757
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