The change in nutritional status of children under-five years on nutrition education and rehabilitation program

This study was aimed to analyze factors that influence the change in nutritional status of children under-five years who participated in Nutrition Education and Rehabilitation Program. This research used secondary data with a pre-post intervention study (one group before and after intervention design) of 141 subjects. Six months intervention program which applied to the children consisted of provision of complementary feeding and supplement of zinc along with nutrition and health education for the mothers. This research conducted at District of East Kutai, Province of East Kalimantan. The average WAZ score of subjects after participating had increased significantly (-1.9 +/- 0.6) compared before participating in this program (-2.3 +/- 0.5) (p<0.05). Subjects with a good appetite tended to increase WAZ score four times than the worse one, while diarrhea subjects tended to have 0.3 times smaller WAZ score increase than non-diarrhea subjects.