The Relation between the Nutritional Status of Mother and the Weight of the

Infants at Puskesmas Pataruman 2, Banjar City, West Java 2014

Arif Susilo Rahadi1 Astri Kartika Sari2 Azka Faza Fadhila3

Khonsa Hartsu Syuhada4 Nur Darda Hajatulail5
Septiani Orthi Armelia6 Siti Iklimah7

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The college students of Program Studi Pendidikan Dokter Fakultas Kedokteran dan Kesehatan
Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta

ABSTRACT
Backgrounds : The problem of nutrition is one of the causes of deaths of mothers
and infants. The lack of nutrition status of pregnant women during pregnancy can
make a lot of bad impact for mothers and infants, is that infants are born with low
birth weight.The infants with low birth weight have 10-20 times for death larger
than the infants with normal birth weight. A pregnant woman would born a healthy
infant if she had a good nutrition. But there is still plenty of pregnant women who
have problems of nutritions especially chronic malnutrition energy.

Methods : The research is observational analitic with crossectional method. The

results of research analyzed using the chi-square statistically. The population of this
research was all the mothers holding the check up antenatal care at the age of
pregnancy 0-42 weeks and childbirth at Puskesmas Pataruman 2.

Results : By using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), the data
processed in cross tabulation 2x2 and was obtained in a pv=0.000 (pv< α) which
means there is a meaningful between nutritions and the low of infant born at
Puskesmas Pataruman 2, Banjar City, West Java in 2014. The odds ratio=11 which
means mothers with chronic malnutrintion energy have 11 time to have a low birth
weight compared with that of mothers with normal nutritions.

Conclusions: There is a significant relation between nutrition status of pregnant

woman and infant at Puskesmas Pataruman 2, Banjar City, West Java in 2014

Keywords : Nutrition status of pregnant women, The weight of infants.