Pengaruh taburia terhadap status anemia dan status gizi balita gizi kurang
Abstract: Micronutrient
deficiency seriously contributes to child morbidity and mortality. The need for
micronutrient can be fulfilled from food, fortified food, and direct
supplementation. Taburia is multivitamin multimineral that is aimed to meet the
need for micronutrient of undernourished under-fives and to prevent the
increased prevalence of undernourishment. It is necessary efficacy and
effectiveness study of Taburia to anemia and nutritional status of
undernourished under fives of 24-55 months.
Objective: To identify the effect of Taburia supplementation to anemia and
nutrition status of under fives at District of Lombok Timur.
Method: The study was experimental with prospective cohort study design
carried out at District of Lombok Timur, Province of Nusa Tenggara Barat. The
subject of the study was undernourished under fives at the area of Nutrition
Improvement Community through Empowerment (NICE) project. The independent
variables were Taburia and biscuits; the dependent variables were anemia and
nutrition status; and the external variables were the intake of energy,
protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, Fe, and zinc. Data analysis used ANOVA and
paired t-test.
Results: There was a significant difference in the average level of
hemoglobin of the subject after the intervention, either in taburia group,
biscuit group, or taburia+biscuit group (p<0.05). There was the difference
in average weight after intervention in the three groups (p<0.05). There was
no significant difference in the average level of hemoglobin and the average
level of weight between biscuit group and Taburia+biscuit group. There was a
change in anemia status from anemia to nonanemia; the highest was in Taburia
group, i.e. 96%; and better nutrition status at the end of the experiment
occurred at Taburia+biscuit group from emaciated to normal (100%).
Conclusion: Taburia supplementation could increase anemia status.
Micronutrient supplementation was needed to increase nutrition status.
Keywords: taburia; anemia
status; nutrition status
Penulis: Wahyuni Kunayarti
Kode Jurnal: jpkesmasdd140747