Quality of Hemoglobin and Nutritional Status on Children Aged 6-24 Months

摘要

Age below five, especially 624 months is a transition age that is vulnerable to malnutrition. Children who experience malnutrition will experience growth and development disorders, iron deficiency anemia. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between hemoglobin status and nutritional status on children aged 6-24 months. The research method is quantitative research with cross sectional approach. The samples were all children aged 6-24 months comprising of 132 children. The data was analyzed using the fisher exact with a significance level of 95% (α <0.05). The results showed that the value of α = 0.435> 0.05. Conclusions: there is no correlation between hemoglobin levels and nutritional status in children aged 6-24 months.