The Correlation of Knowledge, Mother

[摘要] Background: Malnutrition is a condition of deficiency, excess, or imbalance of nutrients from the amount of nutrients needed by the body. One of the ways to prevent malnutrition is by monitoring regularly through a program of public health activities, namely weighing toddlers. This study aims to determine the relationship between mother's knowledge, mother's attitude, and utilization of posyandu in weighing toddlers with toddlers' nutritional status.Subjects and Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Semambung Village, Wonoayu District, Sidoarjo Regency in August 2022. A total of 144 research subjects were selected using a proportionate stratified random sampling technique. The dependent variable is nutritional status. The independent variables are knowledge, mother's attitude, and posyandu utilization. The research instrument is a questionnaire. Data analysis used the chi square test and Odds ratio (OR).Results: Mothers who do not routinely visit posyandu are at risk for having children with nutritional status of BB/U (OR= 3.39; 95% CI= 1.46 to 7.84; p= 0.003) and TB/U (OR= 4.37; 95% CI= 1.20 to 15.84 ; p= 0.016) and the result is statistically significant. Whereas mothers with less knowledge and negative attitudes were not statistically significant.Conclusion: It can be concluded that there is no relationship between mother's knowledge, mother's attitude and nutritional status of toddlers. and there is a relationship between posyandu utilization and the nutritional status of children under five based on the BB/A and TB/A index.

[学科分类] 食品科学和技术

[关键词] knowledge;attitude;posyandu utilization;nutritional status