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Hampir setengah dari seluruh kematian balita yang disebabkan kekurangan gizi. Fenomena yang ditemukan di lapangan bahwa banyak balita yang memiliki masalah gizi disebabkan kurangnya pengetahuan orang tua tentang pemenuhan asupan gizi balita. Survei awal terhadap 10 orang balita, didapatkan 8 orang status gizi kurang. Sebanyak 2 orang tua tidak mengetahui asupan gizi yang baik untuk anak, 3 orang tidak memberikan pola makan yang sesuai, 2 orang anak pernah mengalami diare dan ISPA dan 3 orang memiliki penghasilan kurang dari UMR. Tujuan penelitian untuk mengetahui factor-faktor yang berhubungan dengan status gizi balita. Metode penelitian deskriptif analitik dengan pendekatan cross sectional. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah ibu alita yang berkunjung ke Puskesmas Pondok Tinggi Kota Sungai Penuh, rata-rata kunjungan 225 orang per bulan pada tahun 2019, dengan pengambilan sampel secara convenience sampling sebanyak 69 orang. Data dikumpulkan melalui pengisian angket dan observasi, kemudian diolah secara komputerisasi dengan menggunakan uji statistik chi-square. Hasil analisis univariat didapatkan 42,0 % memiliki pengetahuan rendah, 37,7 % pola asuh kurang baik, 40,6 % ada penyakit infeksi, 50,7 % ekonomi rendah dan 56,6 % memiliki balita dengan status gizi baik. Hasil bivariat tidak ada hubungan pengetahuan ibu dengan status gizi balita (p = 0,126), serta ada hubungan pola asuh ibu (p = 0,009 dan OR = 4,359), penyakit infeksi (p = 0,008 dan OR = 4,350), dan ekonomi (p = 0,038 dan OR = 3,200) dengan status gizi balita. Disimpulkan bahwa faktor yang berhubungan dengan status gizi balita adalah pola asuh ibu, penyakit infeksi dan ekonomi. Diharapkan pada petugas agar meningkatkan penyuluhan tentang pentingnya pengetahuan gizi balita serta upaya pencegahan terjadinya status gizi kurang baik pada balita.

Half of children deathis caused by malnutrition. The phenomenon found in the field is that many toddlers who have nutritional problems are caused by a lack of parental knowledge about fulfilling a toddler's nutritional intake. Initial survey of 10 children under five, found 8 people with poor nutritional status. As many as 2 parents did not know good nutrition for children, 3 did not provide appropriate diet, 2 children had experienced diarrhea and ARI and 3 people had less income than the minimum wage. The purpose of this study was to determine Factors Related to Toddler Nutrition Status in PondokTinggiCommunity Health Center Kota Sungai Penuh Jambi Province in 2019. The type of this study was descriptive analytic research with cross sectional approach. The populations were all toddlers inPondokTinggiCommunity Health Center Kota Sungai Penuh. They were 225 people visited per month in 2019. By using convenience sampling technique, 69 people were chosen as the samples. The data were collected through guided interviews and observation. Then, it was processed by chi-square statistical test. Univariate analysis results found 58.0% had high knowledge, 62.3% had good parenting, 59.4% had no infectious diseases, 50.7% had low economy and 56.6% had toddlers with good nutritional status. Moreover, bivariate results obtained that there was no correlation between maternal knowledge toward nutritional status (p = 0.126) and there was a relationship between maternal parenting (p =
0.009 and OR = 4.359), infectious diseases (p = 0.008 and OR = 4.350), and economy (p = 0.038 and OR = 3,200) toward nutritional status. In short, it can be concluded that factors related to the nutritional status of infants are parenting, infectious diseases and the economy. It is expected that officers improve counseling on the importance of nutrition knowledge for toddlers and do some efforts to prevent malnutrition in toddlers.