Hubungan Pekerjaan Ibu dan Konsumsi Rumah Tangga dengan Status Gizi Balita di Jawa Barat | The Relationship between Maternal Employment and Household Food Consumption with Nutritional Status of Children Under Five in West Java

Permasalahan kesehatan ibu dan anak, seperti masalah gizi umum terjadi di negara berkembang. Pekerjaan ibu dan konsumsi pangan rumah tangga dapat berkaitan dengan status gizi balita. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisis hubungan pekerjaan ibu dan konsumsi pangan rumah tangga dengan status gizi balita di Jawa Barat. Konsumsi pangan rumah tangga diukur dengan metode Food Consumption Score (FCS), status gizi balita diukur dengan z-score. Penelitian ini menggunakan data sekunder SSGI 2022 dengan melibatkan 22891 subjek berusia 0-59 bulan di Jawa Barat. SSGI 2022 menggunakan desain studi cross-sectional dan uji hubungan antarvariabel menggunakan uji Chi-Square. Terdapat hubungan signifikan antara pekerjaan ibu dengan status gizi berdasarkan indeks BB/U (pvalue=0,000), indeks TB/U (p-value=0,039), dan indeks BB/TB (p-value=0,000). Terdapat hubungan signifikan antara konsumsi pengan rumah tangga dengan status gizi balita berdasarkan indeks BB/TB (p-value=0,000).

Maternal and child health issues, such as nutritional problems are common in developing countries. Maternal employment and household food consumption can affect the nutritional status of children under five. This study aims to analyze the relationship between maternal employment and household food consumption with the nutritional status of children under five in West Java. Household food consumption is measured by Food Consumption Score method, the nutritional status of children under five is measured by z-score. This study used secondary data from SSGI 2022 which involved 22891 subjects aged 0-59 months in West Java. SSGI 2022 used a cross-sectional study design and the relationship between variables using the Chi-Square. There was significant relationship between maternal employment and the nutritional status of children under five according to WAZ index (p-value=0.000), HAZ index (p-value=0.039), and WHZ index (pvalue=0.000). There is significant relationship between household food consumption and the nutritional status of children under five according to WHZ index (p-value=0.000).