Family Vulnerability and Children’ Nutritional Status  during COVID-19 Pandemic

Andi Mukramin Yusuf; Dhihram Tenrisau; Healthy Hidayanti; Abdul Haris Ibrahim; Ardiansyah Bahar; Sarifudin Sarifudin; Yoesrianto Tahir; Adhyanti Adhyanti; Elma Alfiah

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Family Vulnerability and Children’ Nutritional Status during COVID-19 Pandemic

Andi Mukramin Yusuf¹ , Dhihram Tenrisau², Healthy Hidayanti³, Abdul Haris Ibrahim⁴, Ardiansyah Bahar⁵, Sarifudin Sarifudin⁵, Yoesrianto Tahir⁵, Adhyanti Adhyanti⁶, Elma Alfiah⁷

¹Nutrition Study Program, Universitas Al-Azhar Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

²Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia

³Public Health Faculty, Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar, Indonesia

⁴ School of Information and School of Public Health, University of Michigan, United States, United States

⁵ Institut Pembangunan dan Kebijakan Kesehatan (LK2PK), Indonesia, Indonesia

⁶ Politeknik Kesehatan Palu, Palu, Indonesia, Indonesia

⁷ Universitas Al-Azhar Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

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Received: 1 Mar 2022; Published: 31 Aug 2022.

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@article{JPHTCR13758,
    author = {Andi Mukramin Yusuf and Dhihram Tenrisau and Healthy Hidayanti and Abdul Haris Ibrahim and Ardiansyah Bahar and Sarifudin Sarifudin and Yoesrianto Tahir and Adhyanti Adhyanti and Elma Alfiah},
    title = {Family Vulnerability and Children’ Nutritional Status  during COVID-19 Pandemic},
    journal = {Journal of Public Health for Tropical and Coastal Region},
  volume = {5},
    number = {2},
    year = {2022},
    keywords = {COVID-19; job loss; nutritional status; nutrition; poverty line;  wasting},
    abstract = {  Introduction:  COVID-19 infected millions of people and became the main mortality worldwide. COVID-19 also affected other health problems, including nutritional problems. This study aimed to find the factors that affected the nutritional and socio-economic status during the COVID-19 pandemic in a neighborhood of DKI Jakarta.   Methods:  This study utilized a cross-sectional design. Total sampling method on all families who had children in the 9 th  Neighborhood, Cawang Sub-District, DKI Jakarta was used. A total of 72 families were involved in this study, and the informants of this study were mothers of under five children. This study utilized a modified questionnaire from the Indonesian National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas) and the Indonesian Nutritional Status Study (SSGI). This study utilized bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis.   Results:  From all of 72 families with children, it was found that eight children were wasting. The Job-Loss ( PHK ) has an OR of 37.8 (95%CI: 5.87-748.53; p=0.001), while below poverty line had an OR of 14.24 (95%CI: 3.55-170.35; p=0.004) to be wasted. The multivariate analysis had included covariates such as parental occupation, parental education, and  antenatal care  (ANC). Job-Loss and Below Poverty Line were the main factors in increasing the risk of malnutrition cases after controlled by covariates.      Conclusion : The decrease in socio-economic status of a family during the pandemic, increased the risk of wasted children. Improvements in policy interventions and socio-economic aids are necessary to improve the nutritional status of under five children in the lower-middle class during the COVID-19 pandemic. },
   issn = {2597-4378},   pages = {74--82}  doi = {10.14710/jphtcr.v5i2.13758},
    url = {https://ejournal2.undip.ac.id/index.php/jphtr/article/view/13758}
}

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Introduction: COVID-19 infected millions of people and became the main mortality worldwide. COVID-19 also affected other health problems, including nutritional problems. This study aimed to find the factors that affected the nutritional and socio-economic status during the COVID-19 pandemic in a neighborhood of DKI Jakarta.

Methods: This study utilized a cross-sectional design. Total sampling method on all families who had children in the 9^th Neighborhood, Cawang Sub-District, DKI Jakarta was used. A total of 72 families were involved in this study, and the informants of this study were mothers of under five children. This study utilized a modified questionnaire from the Indonesian National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas) and the Indonesian Nutritional Status Study (SSGI). This study utilized bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis.

Results: From all of 72 families with children, it was found that eight children were wasting. The Job-Loss (PHK) has an OR of 37.8 (95%CI: 5.87-748.53; p=0.001), while below poverty line had an OR of 14.24 (95%CI: 3.55-170.35; p=0.004) to be wasted. The multivariate analysis had included covariates such as parental occupation, parental education, and antenatal care (ANC). Job-Loss and Below Poverty Line were the main factors in increasing the risk of malnutrition cases after controlled by covariates.

Conclusion: The decrease in socio-economic status of a family during the pandemic, increased the risk of wasted children. Improvements in policy interventions and socio-economic aids are necessary to improve the nutritional status of under five children in the lower-middle class during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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