Assessment of nutritional status of children under-five in families of adolescent mothers in Indonesia 2013

Abstract

Early marriage has became a worldwide problems and so does nutritional status of children under five. Adolescent mothers is not ready to be married in terms of repro-ductive health or mentally. Early marriage contributes to the poverty cycle and also help-lessness in woman. That many studies on the factors associated with the nutrition status of children under five. However, it is still rarely done in Families of adolescent mothers. This article aims to discuss factors related to nutritional status in children under five. Research design Cross-Sectional with logistic analysis (chi-square test) to 978 samples. Samples are families of adolescent mothers of children under-five. The nutritional status assessment based on, weight for height, weight for age, height for age. This study showed mental emotional disorder of adolescent mother, related with underweight (weight for age; p5​sig 0.005) and stunting (height for age; p5​sig 0.012). Another factor, wich related with nutritional status (weight for age) is clean and healthy behaviors of mother (p5​sig,0.024). Clean and healthy life behavior is a disease prevention program. Variables included in multivariate analysis are, father’s occupation, economic status, immunization status, mom’s clean and healthy behaviors and mom’s mental emotional disorder. Interaction test results, there is no interaction, between mental emotional disorder variable of mother, and father’s occupa-tion. The significant factor that related with malnutrition is mom’s mental emotional disor-der. Underweight, stunting, wasting, closely related to clean-healthy behaviors and men-tal-emotional disorder of adolescent mothers.