Factors Related to the Status of Vitamin A and Zink Baduta Aged 6-23 Months in the District of East Central South, Province of Nusa Tenggara Timur

The issue of macro nutrients in Indonesia and in developing countries particularly relate to the and Protein\ud Energy Malnutrition (PEM), since several decades is slowly shifting into a double nutritional problems, starting\ud from the problem of Nutritional Anemia Iron, Vitamin A deficiency (VAD), Disorders Iodine deficiency\ud (GAKI). Less micronutrients (vitamin A and zinc) is one of the factors that influence the incidence of chronic\ud malnutrition. LNS is designed to prevent malnutrition, linear growth of the baby and should facilitate the\ud recovery of moderate acute malnutrition. Objective: This study aimed to determine the status of vitamin A and\ud Zinc among baduta aged 6-23 months in the Middle East South East Nusa Tenggara is based on the\ud characteristics of respondents; age of children, child gender, maternal occupation, job father, mother's education, \ud educational father, Vitamin A and Zinc status. Methods: The population in this study is the family who lived in\ud the WFP target areas and selected from research sites with cross sectional study design. Sample frame is\ud families with children 6-23 months at selected locations with the research subjects were infants aged 6-23\ud months as many as 720 people. Results showed that of the 720 samples obtained in this study sample by gender\ud characteristics mostly male (53.8%), age group baduta mostly at age 12-24 months (57.1%), Most of father job\ud are farmers ( 69.3%), whereas mothers job are housewives (81.5%), education father mostly <9 years (60.3%),\ud most of the mother's education