FREKUENSI KONSELING GIZI, PENGETAHUAN GIZI IBU DAN PERUBAHAN BERAT BADAN BALITA KURANG ENERGI PROTEIN (KEP) DI KLINIK GIZI PUSKESMAS KUNCIRAN, KOTA TANGERANG

Indonesia still have four major nutritional problems, one of the problem is malnutrition of energy protein (KEP). The effectiveness and efficiency solving of nutritional problem are nutrition intervention such as supplementation, fortification and nutrition education. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship betwen the frequency of nutrition counseling, nutritional knowledge of mothers and variance of weight children under five years less energy protein at Clinical Nutrition of Community Health centre, Kunciran, Buraeu of Health, Tangerang City in 2008. This is associative study with cross-sectional design. The population in this study is all infants who comes to community health centre refferal from POSYANDU and MTBS on Tuesday. The total sample of this study was 46 mothers. This study used Pearson Product Moment Correlation to analyze the data. Most of respondents aged 26-30 years (30.4%), the education level is primary school (43.5%), and unemployment or housewife (84.8%). Most of children under five years is female (67.4%) and aged 12-35 months (56.5%). The results shows that there was no relationship between frequency of nutrition counseling, nutritional knowledge of mothers, and variance of weight children under five years, the value of correlation respectively (0.109; 0,156; 0.170). The conclusion of this study is no relationship between the frequency of nutrition counseling, nutritional knowledge of mothers and variance of weight children under five years less energy protein. However, based on boxplot graphs shows there is a tendency among the frequency of nutrition counseling, nutritional knowledge of mothers and variance of weight children under five years less energy protein.

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