(Peer Review + Similarity + Document) PARENTAL NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF PRE SCHOOL CHILDREN (3 -5 YEARS OLD)

BACKGROUND : Parental nutritional knowledge will form an attitude towards children nutritional
status. Good knowledge are expected to improve the nutitional intake of the children so that they
could grow and develope as their aged. The preleminary study through interwiew obtained that there
are still mothers who still do not understand about the right nutrition for chikdren accordance with
children’a age. This tudy conducted to determine the correlationship between parental nutritional
knowledge and nutritional status of pre school children.
SUBJECT AND METHODE : This study is a correlational study conducted with cross sectional
approach, this study involving 40 respondents who is taken by proprosional random sampling from
60 population. The data collected by using a quistoinnaire and anayze using correlation test.
RESULTS : Analysis using Chi Square test show p value 0.001 < α 0.05 means that there are
significant correlationship betwen parental nutrition knowledge and nutritional status of pre school
children.
CONCLUSION : Parental attention about nutritionplays an important roles in creating qualyfied
generation in the future. children nutritional status will determine with child’s intelligence.
Key words : parent, nutritional status, knowledge, pre school.