KONSUMSI PANGAN, PENYAKIT INFEKSI, DAN STATUS GIZI ANAK BALITA PASCA PERAWATAN GIZI BURUK

Abstract

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 5.65pt 6pt 14.2pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">The research objective was to determine food consumption, infectious diseases, and nutritional status of children under-five years old </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">after the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">treatment of severe malnutrition</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> at Puskesmas</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">. The cross-sectional study design was conducted in four sub-districs in Bogor. The number of 27 children was selected purposively out of 44 patients at the Puskesmas. The results showed that 88.9% and 77.8% of children consumed less than 70% RDA of energy and protein. In the last three months, the most children suffered from diarrhoea (55.6%) and ARI (59.3%). There were 81.5% of </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">children</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> still in severe malnutrition and only 18.5% </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">of them </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">shifted to the moderate malnutrition.</span></p>