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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Susanto, Tantut; * | Rasni, Hanny | Susumaningrum, Latifa Aini
Affiliations: Department of Community, Family & Geriatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Jember, Jember, Indonesia
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Tantut Susanto, MN, RN, PHN, Ph.D, Department of Community, Family & Geriatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Jember, Jl. Kalimantan 37 Jember, Jawa Timur, 68121, Indonesia. Tel./Fax: +62331323450; E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: BACKGROUND:Family quality of life (F-QOL) is necessarily issued for in fulfilling nutrition among under-five children that influenced their growth and development. OBJECTIVE:To examine the prevalence of malnutrition and stunting among under-five children and their correlation of F-QOL in agricultural areas of Jember regency, Indonesia METHOD:A cross-sectional study through a family based-survey was conducted among 424 family farmers in Jember regency of Indonesia November to December 2019 using a self-administered questionnaire consisted the characteristics of parents and children, quality of family life, family welfare, family awareness, and measurements of children’s age, height, and weight to identify stunting and malnutrition. T-tests of independence and the One Way ANOVA test was used to correlate the categorical and continuous variables, respectively. Furthermore, to determine the correlation among constant variables, we used a Product Moment test. RESULTS:Prevalence of wasted, stunted, and malnutrition among under-five children in agricultural areas were 3%, 18.9%, and 5%. There was a significant correlation between ethnic of family and type of family with HAZ (p = 0.007), respectively. Meanwhile, there was a significant correlation between WAZ and age of children (r = 0.106; p < 0.05). Furthermore, there were significantly correlation between FQOL and WAZ (r = 0.260; p < 0.01) and HAZ FQOL (r = 0.209; p < 0.01), respectively. CONCLUSION:Malnutrition and stunting are the biggest problems of nutritional status in Indonesia’s agricultural areas correlated with ethnicity and type of family. Meanwhile, the F-QOL is main correlated with stunting and malnutrition among under-five children in agrarian areas.
Keywords: Malnutrition, stunting, under-five children, agricultural
DOI: 10.3233/MNM-200492
Journal: Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 147-161, 2021
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