| dc.description.abstract | Background: Nutritional status was a condition which associated with
consumption and used the nutrients that obtained from food. These nutrients was
important for the development and intelligence in children. Nutrition was used in
the metabolic processes of the brain to stimulate neurotransimtter as chemical
messengers. It was important to improve the intelligence of children, especially
memory function for remembering subjects who received at school. Good brain
development was supported by good nutriens providing child cognitive changes,
including to increase academic achievement.
Purpose: To identify the relationship between nutritional status with school-age
children's academic performance in SD Banjardawa 02 Taman Pemalang.
Method: This research used an analytical descriptive design and cross sectional
study. The population in this study was all children who had in 4th grade and 5th
grade. Study sample selected with total sampling method. Data analysis was
performed with SPSS 19.0.
Result: From the 107 subjects who entered the study, 11 children were found
under nutrition with good academic performance, 86 children were found good
nutrition with good academic performance, 8 children were found good nutrition
with low grade in academic performance and the 2 children were found
overnutrition with good academic performance . From the analysis of the data, it
obtained p=1 for Fisher test, and p=0,454, r= 0,073 for correlative Spearman’s
test.
Conclusion: There was no significant relationship statistically between nutrition
status and academic performance of children in primary school. | en_US |
