The Effect Of Giving Supplemental Food To Pregnant Women With Chronic Energy Deficiency

Abstract

Chronic Energy Deficience (CED) a condition imbalance in the nutritional intake of energy and protein needed by pregnancy women, impact of CED in pregnancy has an indirect risk of death, to prevent CED in pregnant women the Suplementary Feeding Program (SFP) is implemented. The aim was to determine the effect of SFP on CED pregnant women. The sample use was 30 respondents. Data collection used the LILA tape to measure the upperarm circumference (LILA) of pregnant women and observation sheet for SFP. The type of research used a non-equivalent quasi-experiment with a quantitative approach and a one group pretets-posttest design. Data analysis used the Wilcoxon statistical test. The result showerd changes in the size of the Upper Arm Circumference (LILA) ini respondents before and after the intervention. As many as 100% of respodents in the pretest had LILA <23,5, whereas after the intervention, the percentage of respondent with LILA <23,5 decreased to 40% and 60% of respondents had LILA >23,5 and there was a significant difference in the size of LILA before and after intervention, with a p-value of 0.000. the conclusion there is an effect of giving SFP to pregnant women with CED.