Determinants of Nutritional Status of Two-Year-Old Infant’s First Thousand Days of Life in Work Area of Oepoi Public Health Center, Kupang, Indonesia

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Department of Nutrition, Polytechnic of Health Ministry of Health, Kupang, Indonesia

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Background: Nutritional fulfillment in the first thousand days of life has a big influence on children’s intelligence. The prevalence of stunting toddlers in East Nusa Tenggara was shown to be higher than the number of underweight toddlers and there are still children with a very short nutritional status. A short nutritional0status of 17.9% shows that the
nutritional status of children in the first thousand days of life is still not optimal. The goal to find out the determinant factors of the nutritional status of two-year-old infant’s first thousand days0of life in the work area of Oepoi Public Health Center, Kupang City, Indonesia.
Methods: This quantitative study used a retrospective cohort design. It enrolled data from June to November02017 in0the work area of Oepoi Public Health Center, Kupang City, Indonesia with a sample of 100 twoyear-old infants.
Results: The determinant factors related to underweight or severely underweight nutritional status were exclusive breastfeeding, birth weight, and maternal nutritional status/anemia during pregnancy. The determinant factors related to the body height/age nutritional status were exclusive breastfeeding, early complementary feeding, and maternal nutritional
status/anemia during pregnancy, maternal nutritional status/chronic energy deficiency during pregnancy, and colostrum administration. The determinant factors related to the wasting or thinness nutritional status were exclusive breastfeeding, maternal nutritional status/anemia during pregnancy, and ante natal care status.
Conclusion: This study found that all the independent variables were not the determinant factors related to body mass index/age nutritional status.

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