Hubungan Pengetahuan Gizi dan Asupan Energi terhadap Status Gizi Mahasiswa di Universitas Muhadi Setiabudi Brebes

Abstract

Students are individual figures who are in the process of changing from childhood to adulthood, these changes occur physically, biologically, psychologically and socially. Data on the nutritional status of the Brebes District Health Office in 2016 amounted to 81.22% of good nutrition, 0.33% of undernutrition and 18.14% of overnutrition. This indicates that the level of nutritional knowledge among students in Indonesia is still relatively low, so attitudes in choosing nutritious foods are still lacking. This study aims to determine the relationship between nutritional knowledge and nutritional status of students at the University of Muhadi Setiabudi, to determine the relationship between energy intake and nutritional status of students at the University of Muhadi Setiabudi. This study uses an analytic observational research type. The research design is cross sectional. The sample of this study is a total sample of 129 students who meet the criteria. Sampling technique using proportional random sampling technique. Showed that knowledge of good nutrition was 114 (88.37%) lacking 15 (11.62%), energy intake was right 115 (89.14%) was not right 14 (10.85%), normal nutritional status was 112 (86,82%) not normal 17 (13.17%). the results of the chi-square test of nutritional knowledge variable with nutritional status p> 0.05 (p=0.671) and energy intake variable with nutritional status p <0.05 (p=0.000).