Original Research Article
Year: 2023 | Month: January-March | Volume: 8 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 17-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijshr.20230103
Relationship of Giving Complete Basic Immunization to the Nutritional Status of Toddlers at Integrated Healthcare Centre (Posyandu) of Unra Village, Awangpone District, Bone Regency
Ismawati1, Ichsan Trisutrisno2
1,2Sipatokkong Mambo University, Bone, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Ismawati
ABSTRACT
The toddler period is a very important period in the process of growth and development which is the basis for determining the quality of the nation's next generation. In addition, during infancy is also the most vulnerable to health problems. This is caused by several factors, one of which is immunization. Immunization is an effort to actively cause/increase a person's immunity against a disease, so that if one day they get the disease they will not get sick or only experience a mild illness. Nutrition is the process of using food normally consumed by an organism through the process of digestion, absorption, transportation, storage, metabolism and release of substances not used to sustain life. Nutritional problems in toddlers are very vulnerable to the incidence of infection, so that infection in toddlers often occurs in children who are not immunized, this is due to immunization as a preventive measure made to induce or actively increase a person's immunity against a particular disease and can prevent death every year in all age groups due to diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, and malnutrition. This research was conducted at Unra Village, Awangpone District, Bone Regency, on June 2022. This research used a cross-sectional approach with a sample size of 135 people. Determination of the sample using the different proportion hypothesis test formula. Data analysis techniques include univariate analysis and bivariate analysis with the chi square test. The results of the analysis revealed that from 138 respondents, 29.8% were stunted.
Keywords: [Immunization, Toddlers, Nutritional Status]