CORRELATION ARI OCCURRENCE OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS IN

TODDLERS IN PUSKESMAS BIROBULI SOUTH OF PALU

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Atirah*, Fajar Waskito**, Puspita Sari***
*Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Tadulako University
**Dean of Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Tadulako University
***Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Tadulako
University

ABSTRACT

Background: Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) is one of the main health

problems in the world. This is evidenced by the high mortality rate due to
respiratory infections, especially in infants and children under five years old
(toddlers). In 2008, there were 25% toddlers in developing countries, which is
about 146 million children have weight loss problems, which is an indicator of a
lack of nutrients. Malnutrition cases in Indonesia is a health problem that has not
been completely resolved to date, so this research is conducted.
Methods: This study is categorized as an analytic observational study, with a
cross sectional approach. Samples derived from patients toddlers with ARI and
not ARI in health center Birobuli. Additionally, bivariate test is conducted with
coefficient of contingency correlation test. The data was collected using medical
records.
Results: From the results of the statistical analysis between the incidence of ARI
with nutritional status obtained value of r = 0, 001 which indicates that there is a
very weak correlation between the incidence of ARI with nutritional status.
Conclusion: There is correlation ARI occurrence of nutritional status in toddlers
in PUSKESMAS Birobuli.

Keywords: ARI, nutritional status, toddlers

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