FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG BERHUBUNGAN DENGAN STATUS GIZI USILA DI KOTA PADANG TAHUN 2006
Abstrak: The aged is the last
segment in human life, where it has been growth and develop from the baby,
adult and old. It turn out the increasing number of ages are not followed by
good treatment toward of the aged-only about 15,6% of the aged in Padang can be
managed by the posyandu (the center for integrated health care at the
district). Then, in order to know about nutritional status of the aged
therefore we did the research about ‘the factors that relating to the
nutritional status af the aged in Padang’. The characteristic in this research
is analytic to use the cross-sectional study. The research is doing at may 2006
in 2 location is Puskesmas Kuranji sub district Kuranji and Puskesmas Ulak
Karang sub district North Padang with 108 samples. The results of this research
indicated that 50,9% of the aged are 70 year old, 65,7% are the women, 84,3%
live with their family, and 40-60% have physical disturbance problems,
meanwhile 50% of the aged have the level of nutritional substances sufficiency
with 80% of the suggested number of nutrition sufficiency and 25,9% of the aged
have less of nutrition. The statement no significant relationships between ages
and life’s companion with nutrition intake of the aged, but have inclination of
the aged is about 70 years old and stay alone have less of nutrition. Another
that, are significant relationship between the sex with nutrition intake, and
are significant relationship between nutrition intake (energy/protein) with
nutritional status and no significant relationships between fat intake with of
the aged nutritional status. Futhermore, there are significant relationships
between the ages and life’s companion with the nutritional status of the aged,
and no significant relationship between the sex and nutritional status of the
aged yet there is a tendency that most cases about less of nutrition found in
men aged.
Penulis: Elza Enny
Kode Jurnal: jpkesmasdd060002
