The Relationship between Nutritional Status and the Incidence of Diarrhea in Toddlers in the Working Area of the Public Health Center for Land Affairs, Kebumen Regency
Abstract: Diarrhea disease is one of the factors that influence nutritional status. Misconstrued with one hand, diarrhea can trigger the occurrence of malnutrition, while in others the emergence of malnutrition can cause diarrhea. Diarrhea disease remains a major health problem in Indonesia because it is still poor in basic sanitary conditions, physical environment and low public behavior for clean and healthy living. In Indonesia, diarrhea is the second leading cause of child mortality only Bronchi Infections. In Indonesia, every year there were 100,000 children dying of diarrhea. To determine the relationship between nutrition status and diarrhea incidence in children under five at the Petahanan Health Center, Kebumen. The research was conducted with a non-experimental observational case control method with a retrospective approach in infants aged 12-59 months with the number of children under five at 68 months from January to May 2010. In this study, the subjects were divided into two groups of cases ( children under five with diarrhea) and control groups (non-diarrheal infants and children). Control group subjects were taken by simple random sampling, whereas the case group with purposive sampling. The data were collected using medical records and posyandu registers. Data management using computer program SPSS 15 for Windows (Statistical Package for the Social Science). The results based on age weight (BB/U) showed good nutritional status of 58.8% and 41.2% for groups of cases of malnutrition. For the control group showed 94.1% with good nutrition status and 5.9% underweight. Analysis using Chi-Square test ang Odds Ratio. The Chi-Square Test shows that there are differences in the nutritional status of children 12-59 months old with diarrhea and no diarrhea (p=0.001 or p<0.05). Odd Ratio analysis test showed that undernourished infants and children who will experience diarrhea incidence 9.8 times greater than the good nutrition of children under five (OR=9.800, CI=2.001 to 48.001). Conclusions from this study indicate that less nutritional status affects 9.8 times diarrhea than children of the nutritional status of children both in the area of the Petaahan Kebumen Health Center.
Keywords: nutrition state, diarrhea in toddlers, puskesmas
Author: Novy Nugraheni VN, Soeroyo Machfudz
Published on : JKKI Volume 2, Number 4 January 2010