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Mustamin Mustamin ¹, Chatarina Umbul ², Shrimarti Rukmini Devy ³, Rudy Hartono ⁴

Affiliations
1 Doctoral Candidate of Health Sciences, Airlangga University, ID
2 Department of Epidemiology, Airlangga University, ID
3 Department of Health Promotion, Airlangga University, ID
4 Department of Nutrition, Makassar of Health Polytechnic, ID

Abstract

Breast milk is the best nutrient for infant especially for the newborn. Nutrition in breast milk has benefits for improving infant’s growth and development. The infant are expected to be the successor of the nation that has competitiveness and high productivity by getting the best nutrition in the breastmilk. This research aims to determine the relationship of breastfeeding with infant’s growth and development in Sudiang Raya District Makassar City. This research is an analytic with cross sectional study design. The population were all the infant aged 6-12 months in Sudiang Raya distric as many as 192 infants. Total sample were 78 infant. The results showed that the exclusive breast feeding was high (66,7%) compared to the non-exclusive breast feeding (33,3%). Based on data analysis found that there were a significant relationship between breastfeeding and infant’s growth based on BB/U index with ρ: 0,000, PB/U index with ρ: 0,001 and BB/ PB index with ρ: 0,010. There were also a significant relationship between breastfeeding and infant’s development with ρ: 0,000. Giving breast milk to the infant can increase growth and development so that it can improve their health status.

Keywords

Breast Milk, Infant, Growth, Development.

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K. Baharuddin ¹, Bahtiar ¹, Harliani ¹, Muh Basri ¹, M. Muh Yusuf ¹, Sitti Rahmatia ¹, Rudy Hartono ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Nursing, Makassar Health Polytechnic, ID
2 Department of Nutrition, Makassar Health Polytechnic, ID

Abstract

The purpose of the study, known factors associated with treatment failure patients Tuberculosis in children. The method used is an observational design, cross-sectional study intended to determine the factors associated between the independent variables (independent) and dependent variable (dependent) with the identification of all the variables. Both of these variables can be seen at the time of execution simultaneously. The findings in this study found that low education, low knowledge and disobedience taking drugs is a factor that has a strong risk of treatment failure patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in children, while family support only protective factor (prevention) and not a risk factor for treatment failure patients with TB in children , The conclusion showed that the variables influencing the failure of treatment of TB patients is variable education and knowledge has a value of OR unchanged at 22.752 in CI 95% to the value of the lower limit (LL) = 1.032 and Upper limit (UL) = 501.786 with a significance level of 0.048 <0 05.

Keywords

Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Failure, Treatment, Children.

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