Peningkatan Status Gizi Anak Melalui Perbaikan Pola Asuh Keluarga

Family care pattern is an indirect factor affecting children nutritional status. The objective of this research was to identify the relationship between family care patterns with 6-59 months children nutritional status. It was conducted in Kelurahan GL Depok, applying cross-sectional methods involving 420 sample respondents. Bivariate analysis by chi-square test showed that there was a significant relationship between family care patterns with child nutritional status (p= 0,00, α= 0,05). This research suggested that the Puskesmas health care provider should increase the knowledge level of the lower educated mothers about the appropriate way of caring children especially in choosing, processing food, and feeding of varying foods, informing prohibited foods for children, family meal patterns, and everyday meal frequency for their children, by applying discussion and simulation techniques