Role of Hearth Program with Undernutrition Incidence among Toddlers in Tangerang City
Abstract: Toddler is a group
at risk of undernutrition in which World Health Organization (WHO) stated that
toddler mortality because of undernutrition was 54% in 2002. In Indonesia, the
prevalence increased from 17.9% in 2010 to 19.6% in 2013. In Tangerang City, there
was 1.43% of toddlers suffering from undernutrition in 2013. This study aimed
to prove in valid the correlation between Hearth Program covering
food-providing behavior, toddler’s hygiene behavior, health care seeking
behavior and toddler parenting behavior with undernutrition incidence among
toddlers. This study was quantitative, cross sectional, using primary data,
analyzed in univariate, bivariate and multivariate in a month on September.
Samples were taken by total sampling as many as 60 toddlers suffering from
undernutrition in Tangerang City. Results showed that 12 (20%) of 60 toddlers
suffered from very underweight nutrition and the remaining amounted to 48
toddlers (80%) suffered from underweight nutrition. There was a correlation
between food providing behavior and health care seeking behavior with
undernutrition among toddlers. Variable food-providing behavior was the
dominant factor influencing undernutrition among toddlers with OR = 4.655 (CI =
1.052 – 20.6) after controlled by the variable health care seeking behavior.
Improvement on food providing and health care seeking is hopefully able to
improve and decrease undernutrition among toddlers.
Author: Alla, Dany Hilmanto,
Dedi Rachmadi
Journal Code: jpkesmasgg160021
