Determinants Affecting Toddler Nutritional Status in Public Health Centre of Yomdori, Biak Numfor

Abstract

Toddlers are included in the nutrition community groups vulnerable groups. Nutritional status of children have an enormous influence in creating quality human resources in the future. Direct factor as a cause of nutritional status is nutrition and infectious diseases related to diet, number of family members and social culture. This study aims to determine the effect of diet, family size, family income level, social culture and history of infectious diseases of the status of children in the health center GIZ Yomdori Noemfoor Biak district. This study was an observational study with case control study design. Samples taken as many as 90 people as respondent to control the number of cases 45 and 45. The data was collected from interviews and questionnaires nutrition status of medical records. Data were analyzed by the odds ratio. The results showed that the diet (OR = 4.529; 95% CI: 1.852 to 11.077; p = 0.001), number of family members (OR = 13.054; 95% CI: 22,797- 60.922; p = 0.000), the level of family income (OR = 4.529; 1.852 to 11.077; p = 0.001) and a history of infectious disease (OR = 8.125; 2.868 to 23.019; p = 0.000) affect the nutritional status of children in the health center Yomdori Biak Numfor. While socio-cultural (OR = 42.406; 0.995 to 5.818; p = 0.079) did not affect the nutritional status of children in the health center Yomdori Biak Numfor.

The dominant factor affecting the status of GIZ toddler is eating, family size and family income level history of infectious diseases. Determinants of the nutritional status of children is diet (p = 0.002; OR = 7.992), number of family members (p = 0.003; OR = 18.901), the level of family income (p = 0.025; OR = 4.863) and a history of infectious disease (p = 0.000; OR = 11.957).