Sunday, August 5, 2012

STUDY ON ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONJUNCTION WITH PROBLEMS AND LESS NUTRITION IN MANGGARAI DISTRICT, EAST SOUTHEAST NUSA

The objective of this study is to know the relationship between socioeconomic and and cultural aspects and undernutrition problem in Kabupaten Manggarai, Nusa Tenggara Timur. The specific objects are to know the prevalence of undernutition of children under five in Kabupaten Manggarai, to identify socio-economic charaterictic of the sample’s family, sample’s nutrition status, environment sanitation, mother’s nutritional knowledge and food consumption, to identify the cultural of Manggarai that have a relationship with undernutrition problem and poverty in Manggarai, to analyze the relationship between identify socio-economic charaterictic of the sample’s family, food consumption and undernutrition problem in Manggarai. This research was designed with cross sectional study with purposive method. This research was conducted at Desa Meler, Kecamatan Ruteng, Kabupaten Manggarai from June to July 2007. Primery and secondary data were collected in this research.
Primery data including socio economic charaterictic of sample family, sample’s nutritional status, environment sanitation, and food consumption using interview with questionare. Secondary data including food production, prevalence of nutritional status of children under five, poverty data etc, and was collected from Manggarai’ s Government Institution. Population on this research is children under five in Desa Meler. Samples consisted of 80 children, and was classified into two groups, which is 48 classified as undernutrition group and the rest of them belong to normal group.
Result shows that the prevalence of undernutrition of children under five in Manggarai year 2005 is 22,75 % and decrease in year 2006 become 19,24%. Poverty is one causal factor of this prevalence in Manggarai. Based on the result the average of energy consumption of two samples is same 995 kkal, and protein consumption of normal nutrition sample’s is bigger than undernutriton sample’s. Some factors that have a relationship with undernutrition problem in Kabupaten Manggarai are family’s income, mother’s nutritional knowledge, and also consumption of energy and protein.

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