GAMBARAN KETERSEDIAAN PANGAN, KECUKUPAN ENERGI, DAN PROTEIN SERTA STATUS GIZI IBU HAMIL PASCAPENGUNGSIAN ERUPSI GUNUNG SINABUNG KABUPATEN KARO TAHUN 2014

Abstract: Pregnant women is one of the vulnerable groups in nutritional problems because pregnancy term need a large number of nutrients. Natural disaster can affect the household food available such as the eruption of Sinabung which is cause the destruction of agricultural that give impact in the collapse of population economy. This is affect the nutritional status of pregnant women when natural disaster occurs to leave the refugee. The purpose of this research is to find out the household food available, the number of energy and protein adequacy and the nutritional status of pregnant women post Sinabung’s eruption. This is a descriptive research with cross sectional design. The 33 samples of this research are the whole population in 2nd and 3rd trimester range. This research takes the household food availabel, the number of energy and protein adequacy, and nutritional status data were analyzed by univariate to get the frequency distributions. The research shows that most of the nutritional status of pregnant women based on Upper Arm Circle did not have a high risk in Energy Chronic Malnutrition (<23,5 cm) is about 90,9%. Pregnant women food available shows 54,5% in non adequate category and the adequacy of protein in pregnant women shows 66,7% in non adequate category. The household food available shows only 45,5% household in a good level of food available, and the rest shows the households food available are insecure because the economy of people is unstable yet caused of agriculture is not giving the crops yet. It is required for the increase of pregnant women awareness in health nutritional needed which is increased in the term of pregnancy and the centred effort from government to make sure the food available in population in case of natural disaster ( eruption) which is affect the collapse of agricultural and economical.
Keywords: food available, energy and protein adequacy, nutritional status, post evacuation
Penulis: Silvina Sri Hartati Manurung, Evawany Yunita Aritonang, Ernawati Nasution
Kode Jurnal: jpkesmasdd140228

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