A Review of the Relationship between Preschoolers' Energy and Protein Consumption and their Nutritional Status in the Early Childhood Education Setting (Age < 5 Years)

Abstract

Adequate nutrition is also very influential on human productivity. A pre-school age child is experiencing a period of relatively rapid growth and development. The purpose of this study was to determine the analysis of energy and protein consumption on nutritional status in pre-school children (age < 5 years). The research design is a correlational study with a cross sectional design approach. The independent variable is energy and protein consumption, while the dependent variable is nutritional status. The population is all pre-school age children (age < 5 years) as many as 24 respondents. The data collection technique used a questionnaire. The results showed that most of the respondents had the appropriate energy consumption as many as 18 respondents (75.0%), most of the respondents had the appropriate protein consumption as many as 18 respondents (75.0%) and most of the respondents had normal nutritional status, namely as many as 17 respondents (70.8%). Data analysis using linear regression test to determine the effect of energy and protein consumption on nutritional status in pre-school age children (age < 5 years) obtained sig (2-tailed) or p-value = 0.000 and error level or = 0.05, so p < , 0.006 < 0.05 so H1 is accepted, meaning that energy and protein consumption on nutritional status in pre-school age children (age < 5 years). The conclusion of this study is that nutrition is a manifestation of energy intake and expenditure.