THE EFFECT OF FOOD CARE PATTERNS AND HEALTH CARE PATTERNS ON THE NUTRITION STATUS OF CHILDREN IN THE DISTRICT ATINGGOLA NORTH GORONTALO DISTRICT

Abstract

This research aims to find out the influence of Food Care Patterns and Health Care Patterns on the nutritional status of children under five in Atinggola District, North Gorontalo Regency .

This study uses observational analytic with a quantitative approach . In this study, the number of population obtained in the Atinggola Health Center, North Gorontalo Regency, was 118 toddlers using the Slovin formula, the sample size was 21 people.

The results of this study showed that 15 toddlers (71.4%) had good nutritional status, 2 toddlers (9.5%) had bad nutritional status, 12 toddlers (57.1%) had good food parenting patterns and 9 had enough. people (42.9%), health care pattern with good category is 19 people (90.4%), enough is 1 person (4.8%) and lacking is 1 person (4.8%), nutritional status of toddlers with good category as many as 15 toddlers (71.4%), malnutrition as many as 3 toddlers (14.2%) and bad nutrition as many as 2 toddlers (9.5%). The results of the chis-quare test were obtained for the parenting pattern variable with a value of p = 0.023 and for health parenting the value of p = 0.02 was lower than the value of α (0.05) so that it could be concluded that there was an effect of parenting and health care on nutritional status of children under five in Atinggola District, North Gorontalo Regency in 2022.