Nutritional Status in Relations with Development of Gross and Fine Motorics among Child 1-3 Years in Sub District Mangarombang, Takalar Regency 2013

Abstract

Good motorist development of children's behavior will further enrich creativity allowing the child to learn and to work so that the child can perform the command, allowing the child to the obligations, tasks and even the desire his own desire. South Sulawesi is on the order of 24 percentages based on indicators of nutrition status BB / U is 12.5% ??malnourished district. In Takalar turns from data acquired approximately 18.7% are under five are undernourished based indicators BB / U (Riskesdas, 2010). The objective of this study is to determine the relationship of Nutritional Status with Gross motor development and fine motor Child Age 1-3 years in the Regional District of Mangarabombang Takalar in 2013. This was an observational study with cross sectional study. This research was conducted from 1 August to 1 September 2013. The sample size was 235 respondents drawn using purposive sampling technique. The results shows that nutritional status of children in the districts Mangarabombang Takalar, there were 75.3% good nutritional status of children and 24.7% of children who have less nutritional status.

Gross motor development of children who have abnormal results as much as 51.1% and 48.9% were normal and smooth development of fine motor have abnormal results as much as 48.5% and 51.5% were normal. As a conclusion we can say that nutritional status has a relationship with the development of gross motor and fine motor skills of children aged 1-3 years in the districts Mangarabombang Takalar.