FOOD HABIT AMONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN URBAN BOGOR
Authors: Damayanthi Evy , Dwiriani Cesilia Meti , Kustiyah Lilik , Briawan Dodik 
Published: December 2017

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 5.65pt 6pt 14.2pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Food habit strongly predicts individual nutritional status. It is largely influenced by family food habit and family socioeconomic, partly by nutrition education learning in the school<strong>.  </strong>Objectives</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> of this study were t</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">o </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">analyze</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> elementary school children eating habit and examine whether it relates to family socioeconomic and nutritional status.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">One hundred elementary school children, and their mother, from one school in urban Bogor were chosen purposively according to SIBERMAS Program criteria (i.e<span style="color: #ff0000;">.</span> grade 4<sup>th</sup> and 5<sup>th</sup>, morning school, having UKS program and not havingcanteen). Self administered, structured pre-coded questionnaire were used to collect the data. Nutritional status was assessed using weight and height, and body mass index for age (BAZ) and height for age (HAZ) were then calculated using AnthroPlus software developed by WHO (2009). School children </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">we</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">re 8-11 years old (mean 9.37 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">+</span> 0.66 years), more girls (54%), and mostly ha</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">d</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> normal nutritional status using both indexes (72% for BAZ and 95% for HAZ). School children </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">were </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">commonly from middle class as indicate</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">d</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> by father education (sarjana) and mother (senior high school).  Almost all school children (99%) kn</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">e</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">w breakfast </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">wa</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">s important and 81% of them </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">a</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">t</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">e</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> breakfast. Only 32% school children b</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">rought</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> lunch box everyday although 92% state</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">d</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> their habit to bring lunch box to school. Buying snack in school </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">wa</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">s also common among school children. Generally school children a</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">t</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">e rice 3 times a day (2.95 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">+</span> 0.97) with fish, meat, chicken (2.47 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">+</span> 1.14), tempe and tofu (2.22 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">+</span> 1.10), vegetables (2.25 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">+</span> 0.76) and fruits (2.37 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">+</span> 1.31). There </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">wa</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">s a tendency overweight and obese school children eat more rice although statistically not significant.  On average, school children dr</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">a</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">nk milk more than twice daily (2.34 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">+</span> 0.98), plain water more than 7 glasses daily (7.34 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">+</span> 4.10), exercise 3 times weekly (3.02 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">+</span> 2.16) and no difference were observed between nutritional status and family socioeconomics. School children food habit </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">we</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">re strongly supported by mother behavior especially in providing breakfast, lunch box and guiding their children in choosing snack food. School children from middle class in urban Bogor ha</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">d</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> relatively good food habits which weresupported by mother behavior. This study found no relationship between family socioeconomic and nutritional status on school children food habit.</span></p>