FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG BERHUBUNGAN DENGAN STATUS GIZI PADA BALITA DI DESA TANJUNG SARI

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Nutrition is one of the determinants of quality human resources that are of good quality, healthy, intelligent and productive. Riskesdas produces a map of health problems and their tendencies in infants born to adulthood. Based on the results of Riskesdas (2013), the prevalence of undernutrition in children under five (BB / U <-2SD), gives a fluctuating picture from 18.4% (2007) decreased to 17.9% (2010) then increased again to 19.6 % (2013) consisted of 5.7% malnutrition and 13.9% malnutrition. From the above data the prevalence of malnutrition increased by 0.9% from 2007 to 2013. The prevalence of malnutrition also experienced changes, from 5.4% in 2007, 4.9% in 2010, and 5.7% in 2013. Bappenas in the Riskesdas (2013) report states that to achieve the MDG's 2015 target of 15.5%, the national prevalence of malnutrition must be reduced by 4.1% in the 2013 to 2015 period (Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia, 2015). This type of research is quantitative analytic with cross sectional design. research sample as many as 87 people. Sampling by purposive sampling. Data were analyzed using the chi-square statistical test, at the significance of the statistical p-value calculation (0.05) or 95% confidence level. If the calculation results show the value of p <p-value (0.05). the results of this study prove that toddler eating patterns are related to nutritional status. Toddlers with good eating patterns carried out by their mothers tend to have a good nutritional status while toddlers with poor eating patterns tend to experience poor nutritional status as well. A good diet is a diet that is given regularly with adequate nutritional intake according to the age of the toddler and the food is given varies.