Relationship Factor Enabling Giving Complementary Foods for Breast Milk with Baby Nutrition Status in Makassar City. Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development 11 (3); 1125-1130

Abstract

Introduction: Poor nutritional status is a major nutritional problem in infants and has an impact on growthdisorders and is a problem that needs to be addressed seriously, age 6-18 months is a very important periodas well as a critical period in the process of growth and development both physically and intellectually.Therefore, every baby at this time must obtain nutritional intake according to their needs. Aim; to prove therelationship between enabling factors and infant nutritional status.Method: Type of research used analytical survey with a cross-sectional study approach. This research wascarried out in Maccini Sawah Sub-District, Makassar Sub-District, Makassar City. The sample of this studywas infants with exhaustive sampling with 62 samples. Results: The study found that the age of starting complementary food for breast milk was related to thenutritional status of the baby with a p-value (0,000), the type of complementary foods for breast milk relatedto the nutritional status of the baby with a p-value (0,015), the frequency of complementary foods for breastmilk related to nutritional status with p-value 0.004), and the variation of complementary foods for breastmilk administration is related to nutritional status with p-value (0.001).Conclusion: It was found that there was a strong relationship between age, starting, giving, type, frequency,and variation of complementary feeding with infant nutritional status.