DETERMINANTS OCCURRENCE OF TODDLERS BELOW THE RED LINE IN HEALTH CENTER OF AWAL TERUSAN

Abstract

Background: Indonesia ranked 5^th in the world for highest number of toddler suffering stunted growth and 7.7 millions toddler are below the red line. In 2014, the incident below red line in Awal Terusan public health center of 2 toddlers. But in 2015, The incidence below red line having an increase significantly of 53 toddler. BGM is a severe malnutrition rate so that when weighed weight is below the red line at KMS. This research aims at examining the determinants occurrence of below red line toddler in health center of Awal Terusan.

Method: This type of research is analytic survey research using cross sectional design. The sample was obtained by the formula Lemeshow, with the sampling technique of convenience sampling of the population, namely children under 12 to 24 months and a total sample of 53 toddler.

Result: The results showed that the variables that had correlation with the incidence of below red line is an infectious disease (p value=0.024), diet of children (p value=0.000), participation of mother in Posyandu (p value 0,006), mother knowledge (p value = 0,006) and socioeconomic status (p value=0.002). While the variables that are not correlated with the incidence of below red line is excluxive breastfeeding (p value=0,451) and birth spacing (p value=0.177).

Conclusion: This research could be reference in order to participate and minimize the risk of below red line toddler that might not be continued.

Keywords: Determinants, toddler, below red line

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26553/jikm.2016.7.1.48-63