Pengaruh pendidikan gizi terhadap pengetahuan, praktik gizi seimbang dan status gizi pada anak sekolah dasar
Abstract: The prevalence of
nutritional problem in school aged children was high, beside Indonesia has
Nutritional Balance Guidelines. Socialization of this guidelines in nutrition
education and nutrition practice to be applied is very important to do in
school aged children.
Objective: Analyze nutrition education effect on nutritional knowledge,
nutritional practice and nutritional status in Elementary school children.
Methods: This study used pra experimental with one group pretest-posttest
design. This study was conducted in March – April 2017 in SDN Paringin 2 South
Kalimantan. Subjects consisted of 61 students that choosen purposively. The
research divided into 4 phases. First phase was pretest, second phase were
intervention and first post test of nutritional knowledge, third phase was
observation of nutrtitional practice, and the last phase was post test.
Result: Nutrition education increased the category of nutritional
knowledge from poor to fair. Nutrition education did not increase nutritional
practice significantly yet. Nutritional status showed changes in every category
and most of the subjects were normal. The difference test showed that nutrition
education has a significant difference on pre test and first post test of
nutrition knowledge (p=0.000; p<0.05), energy intake (p=0.002; p<0.05), protein intake
(p=0.001; p<0.05), and fat intake (p=0.007; p<0.05). The correlation test
showed that there were no significant correlation between sujects’
characteristic with nutritional status and food consumption (p>0.05),
nutritional knowledge with nutritional status and nutritional
practice(p>0.05), except second post test of nutritional knowledge with
fourth nutritional practice observation (p=0.001; p<0.05).
Conclusions: There was an increased of nutritional knowledege from poor
categorize to fair categorize after the intervention. There were increased and
decreased on nutritional practice after intervention. There was no significant
different of nutritional status before and after intervention.
Keywords: nutrition education;
nutritional knowledge; nutritional practice; nutritional status
Penulis: Hayda Irnani, Tiurma
Sinaga
Kode Jurnal: jpkesmasdd170498
