The Relationship among Breakfast Habits, Calorie Intake and Nutritional Status of Sumedang Government’s Nursing Academy Students

Abstract

In young adults age group breakfast is the meal time most often skipped. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between breakfast habits, calorie intake and nutritional status of the students of Sumedang government's nursing academy. This study employed a cross sectional study method design which includes nutritional status as its the dependent variable and breakfast habits and calorie intake as its independent variable. The sample taken were 83 persons of freshman and sophomore of nursing students of the 2016-2017 academic year. The sampling was organized by using proportional random sampling method. Nutritional status was assessed by employing BMI. Breakfast habits were assessed by employing breakfast habit questionnaire in one week. Calorie intake was assessed by using a 1x24 hours food recall questionnaire. Furthermore, calorie intake was analyzed by using Nutri Survey software and compared with the 2012 Energy Adequacy Rate for Indonesia population. For bivariate analysis this study used Pearson chi-square test with a significance degree of 95% and p-value <0.05. The characteristics of nutritional status of the respondents classified as Normal weight status (61.4%), Thin (19.3%), and Fat (19.3%). Most respondents have good calorie intake (53.0%) and have regular breakfast habits (54.2%),/it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between calorie intake and nutritional status (p=0.001) and breakfast habits with nutritional status (p = 0.033). Conclution that healthy breakfast habits in young adults are a good lifestyle that should be pursued to fulfill daily energy needs to achieve normal nutritional status.