THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MEAL PATTERN WITH NUTRITIONAL STATUS IN TODDLERS AT BANGSRI VILLAGE MAGETAN DISTRICT
Keywords:
Feeding Pattern, Toddler, Nutritional StatusAbstract
One of the health problems faced by Indonesia is malnutrition which makes the
level of health of the Indonesian people not increase significantly. The body will
get a good nutritional health condition if the habit of eating patterns is formed in
quantity. A good diet needs to be established as an effort to meet nutritional needs
and an inappropriate diet will lead to excess nutrient intake or vice versa. The type
of research used is correlational analytic with cross sectional approach. The
population in this study were all mothers who have children under five aged 2-5
years in Rw 2 Bangsri Village, Magetan Regency with a total of 36. The sampling
technique used was the Non Probability Sampling technique. The data obtained
was then processed by the Chi Square Test method. The results of this study
indicate that toddlers with proper eating patterns all have normal weight while
toddlers with inappropriate eating patterns are mostly underweight. The results of
the analysis showed the relationship between diet and nutritional status in children
aged with the Chi Square test results obtained p value = 0.000 < = 0.05. Children's
health is something that parents need to take seriously. Efforts are made to arrange
a balanced diet to suit their nutritional needs. A balanced diet and the selection of
the right food ingredients are things that must be done because the food intake
needed by toddlers can be fulfilled.