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ABSTRACT
The children under 5th are the age group most vulnerable impaired growth and
development. So that they need optimal nutrition. Parent’s is a person that have
role to fulfill nutrition intake. Parent’s knowledge affect to nutritional status of
children. Lack of knowledge about nutrition will further reduce information needs
in everyday life, this is one of the causes of nutritional difficulties in children. This
research was aimed to the relationship between knowledge of mothers with
nutritional status of toddler in the work area of Puskesmas Tanah Jambo Aye
Kabupaten Aceh Utara. This type of research is correlational analytic with cross
sectional research. This research uses total sampling technique with a total
sample of 32 respondents. This research was conducted using primary data
obtained from questionnaires obtained by respondents. Data analysis using
univariate and bivariate analysis with the chi-square test (𝑥 2 ) (p<0,05). The
results showed a sample of mothers who had high level of knowledge as many as
19 people (59.38%), medium as many as 9 people (28,18) %), and low as many as
4 people (12.49%). Almost all samples from the toddler had good nutritional
status 28 toddler (87.49%), less than 3 toddler (9.38%), more than 1 toddler (3,
13%), while toddler with malnutrition were not found. Based on the results of
data analysis using SPSS through the Chi Square test, the value of p value was
0.036 (p <0.05) and showed how large the proportion of relations between
knowledge of mothers with nutritional status of toddler in the work area of
Puskesmas Tanah Jambo Aye Kabupaten Aceh Utara.
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