HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF CHILDREN TO CHILDREN IN COASTAL FAMILY IN BENGKULU PROVINCE

Abstract

Coastal areas have a lot of natural wealth potential. Malnutrition among children under five years old in fishing families is greater than in farming families. Family characteristics such as education, knowledge, work and family income are the most important parts in ensuring family food security, so it is necessary to know the characteristics and nutritional status of toddlers in coastal families in Bengkulu province. The research method is descriptive analytic through cross sectional approach. With the sample is the mother who had children under five in the locus and not stunting loci on the coast of Bengkulu province totaling 479. The data that has been collected is processed with the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) program, then analyzed by Univariate. The result of the research is that most of the characteristics of children under five are < 3 years old. Gender is mostly female. Mother’s characteristics factors are mostly < 35 years old, while most of them have low education. Almost all mothers of toddlers do not work. Meanwhile, the majority of family incomes are still below the minimum wage. Of the three indicators of WAZ, HAZ and WHZ, Bengkulu coastal families have public health problems. Characteristics of families with low categories. The food security factor of food diversity is mostly food security, the analysis of the total food available in the medium category and the analysis of the highest food quality are utilized. It is hoped that the characteristics and risk factors for exposure to community malnutrition in children under five years of age in coastal areas are a concern and need further researchers with different research.