ABSTRACT

THE DIFFERENCE OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF TODLER FOSTERED

BY BIOLOGICAL PARENTS WITH THOSE WHO ARE NOT IN DUSUN
GINANG DESA BANGSEREH, BATU MAR-MAR, PAMEKASAN, MADURA
By: Moh Hairunnas
One cause of the problem of nutritional status, especially undernourished or
malnourished, one of which is a parent. Parents are an important factor in meeting the
daily nutrition. There is a difference between toddlers fostered solely by parents with
toddlers who are not fostered by their parents. The purpose of this study was to
analyze differences in nutritional status of toddlers fostered solely by parents with
toddlers who are not fostered by their parents in Bangsereh, Batu Mar-Mar,
Pamekasan, Madura.
This study used cross sectional analytic design. The population in this study
are all parents who have todlers in May 2015 Bangsereh, Batu Mar-Mar, Pamekasan,
Madura as many as 54 respondents. The sampling technique used was purposive
sampling. In this study, the independent variable was the presence of the parents and
the dependent variable is the nutritional status of children. The technique of collecting
data using interviews and Z-score table and then analyzed with chi-square test with a
significance level of 0.05.
The results showed the nutritional status of todlers who are not fostered by
biological parents majority suffer low nutritional status, ie 14 children (25.9%) and
that in the majority fostered by biological parent have normal nutritional status, ie 26
children (48.1%).
Results of analysis of data processed using the chi-square test with p = 0,001
<a 0.05 indicates that there is a relationship between the presence of the parents with
the nutritional status of todlers. It is expected for older parents in the village to be
more active and spend enough time for their todlers to prevent malnutrition or poor
nutrition.
Keywords: The presence of parents, nutritional status of todlers.