Repositori BKPKPeningkatan Status Gizi Anak Balita di Lingkungan Keluarga Pekerja WanitaM.SaidinauthorA study of nutritional improvement in children under five years old of working women families was conducted in the sub district of Kali Wungu, district of Kudus, Central Java. A total of 83 preschool children (19-55 months old) with mild under nutrition was divided into two groups. The first was intervention group received food supplement containing 300 kcal of energy and 5 g of protein, three times a week for the duration of 14 weeks. The second was control group, did not receive any food supplement. Baseline data collection included identity, body weight and height, haemoglobine, haematocrit, serum ferritin, food consumption of the children and socioeconomic status of the household and was conducted in both groups before starting with the supplementary feeding. Just after baseline data collection, both groups received de worming (combantrin syrup). Multivitamin were given every day for the first ten days and another ten days in the middle of the intervention. While iron pill (Ferro sulphate) 30 mg was given weekly. The evaluation were conducted after 14 weeks of intervention. The results of the study revealed that : 1) the energy intake of daily food consumption of both groups of children was lower than Recommended Dietary Allowances (61 percent RDA); 2) the average energy intake originating from the portion of the food supplement consumed was only 225 Kcal (75 percent of the total energy provided); 3) supplementary feeding three times per week for 14 weeks together with providing a medicine package consisting of de worming (combantrin), multivitamins (provide) and iron pill increases nutritional status based on weight for age by 2.7 percent; 4) supplementary feeding three times per week for 14 weeks together with medicine package raises Hb levels 0.61 g/dl; 5) the medicine package only, without supplementary feeding increases Hb levels 0.21 g./dl (control group); 6) supplementary feeding activities for children of workingwomen families could be managed by cadres as volunteers under supervision of the village's midwife.QU 145-220 Nutrition. Vitamins1998Center for Research and Development of Nutrition and Food, NIHRDMonograph

For work being deposited by its own author: In self-archiving this collection of files and associated bibliographic metadata, I grant Repositori BKPK the right to store them and to make them permanently available publicly for free on-line. I declare that this material is my own intellectual property and I understand that Repositori BKPK does not assume any responsibility if there is any breach of copyright in distributing these files or metadata. (All authors are urged to prominently assert their copyright on the title page of their work.)

For work being deposited by someone other than its author: I hereby declare that the collection of files and associated bibliographic metadata that I am archiving at Repositori BKPK is in the public domain. If this is not the case, I accept full responsibility for any breach of copyright that distributing these files or metadata may entail.

Clicking on the Deposit Item Now button indicates your agreement to these terms.