Selection of Food Materials and Diet Intervention of Casein Free Gluten Free (CFGF) on Children Nutritional's Status of Autism in Bengkulu City

摘要

Background: The prevalence of autistic children has a significant increase. Autism can happen to all children from various social and cultural levels. Autistic behavior can be handled with several steps including through medical treatment, psychological therapy, behavior management, and diet regulation. Diet therapy settings can make it the easier achievement of other therapeutic results. The usual diet for autistic patients is among others Gluten Free and Casein Free (GFCF) diets. Repair or decrease in autistic behavior can be seen within 1-3 weeks for Gluten Free and Casein Free (GFCF) diets. With Given the provision of gluten and casein-free diet, autistic children will be limited in consuming food every day so that the food consumed does not vary and macro and micronutrients that should be available will also be reduced so that they will impact on children's nutritional status. Objective: To find out the influence of food selection behavior and dietary intervention CFGF on the nutritional status of autistic children in the City of Bengkulu Method: This type of research is experimental quasi with research design one-group pretest-posttest design. Research location is Autism Center in the City Bengkulu. The study sample was all autistic children who met the inclusion criteria and exclusion at the Bengkulu City Center Autism School as many as 31 people. After Primary data was collected, pre-test and FFQ interview continued to intervene by giving red bean milk as an alternative fulfillment of the CFGF diet, observation of autistic children in the study sample. Furthermore, post-test and the process of collecting, processing, and analyzing data using the Independent test T-test. Results: There is an effect of the behavior of food selection and CFGF diet interventions on Nutritional status of autistic children in the city of Bengkulu, the act of mothers in the collection of food ingredients children with autism in Kota Bengkulu, there is an effect of providing dietary intervention on nutritional status autistic child in the city of Bengkulu.