Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Food supplementation is one of the national programs to improve the nutritional status in Indonesia. This study aims to determine the effect of food supplementation on the nutritional status of elementary school children in Solok, West Sumatra. METHODS: This research was an experimental study with pre and post-test design. The samples were 70 elementary students, 10-12 years old. Food supplement was given 30 times with an average nutritional value of 335 kcal of energy and 9.6 grams of protein. Bivariate analysis using the T-test-One Sample Test. RESULTS: Food supplement was given for 30 times, six times a week. There was an increase in normal nutritional status from 74.7% to 84.3% and there was a decrease in underweight cases from 24,3% to 15.7%. Statistical tests obtained that there are differences in nutritional status after the administration of food supplement (p<0.0001). DISCUSSION: There is an influence of food supplementation on nutritional status in elementary school students in Solok city. Feeding counseling is needed to improve the acceptability of the food supplement.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-290,
title = {The Effect of Food Supplementation On Nutritional Status of School Children in Solok City},
author = {Desmawati and Idral Purnakarya and Septy Nora and Dera Elva Junita},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: Food supplementation is one of the national programs to improve the nutritional status in Indonesia. This study aims to determine the effect of food supplementation on the nutritional status of elementary school children in Solok, West Sumatra. METHODS: This research was an experimental study with pre and post-test design. The samples were 70 elementary students, 10-12 years old. Food supplement was given 30 times with an average nutritional value of 335 kcal of energy and 9.6 grams of protein. Bivariate analysis using the T-test-One Sample Test. RESULTS: Food supplement was given for 30 times, six times a week. There was an increase in normal nutritional status from 74.7% to 84.3% and there was a decrease in underweight cases from 24,3% to 15.7%. Statistical tests obtained that there are differences in nutritional status after the administration of food supplement (p\<0.0001). DISCUSSION: There is an influence of food supplementation on nutritional status in elementary school students in Solok city. Feeding counseling is needed to improve the acceptability of the food supplement.},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: Department of Nutritional Science, Faculty of Medicine, Andalas University, Indonesia},
keywords = {Children, Food supplement, nutritional status, School},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}