| dc.description.abstract | Various kinds of street food with the aroma and delicious taste are sometimes
so tempting for the school age children while there may be dangerous chemical
materials behind them. Diarrhea resulted from these kinds of street food can be
caused by the unclean and E-coli contaminated food.
According to the data of2006,there were 2,636 (75,04%) cases of diarrhea in
Bosar Maligas sub-district of Simalungun. This rate of diarrhea incident was higher
than the total number of diarrhea cases occurred in 33 sub-distric in the work area of
Simalungun District whose average rate of diarrhea cases were less than 60%.
The purpose of this observational study with cross - sectional design is to
analyze the relationship between street food consumption and the incident of diarrhea
and nutrient status of the elementary school students in Simalungun District in 2008.
The population for study is all of the elementary school students from Grade IV to
Grade VI studying at 4 (four) state elementary schools (Boiuk, Parbutaran, Sidojadi,
and Bosar Maligas) in Bosar Maligas sub - District. The samples for this study were
selected through proportional stratified random sampling technique. The data
obtained were analyzed through Chi-square test at a= 0,05 .
The result of this study reveals that the street food consumed by the
elementary school students has not met the standart recommended, namely, the street
food consumed contribute 17,30% of total energy, but the street food consumed by
the elementary school students generally contain e-coli bacteria. Based on the
statistical analysis, it is found out that there is a relationship uetween the street food
consumption and the incident of di::irrhea (p= 0,043) and relationship between the
incident of diarrhea and nutrient status BB/U (p = 0,034) TB/U (p=0,014) BB/TB
(p=0,041 ). The more street food consumed by the elementary school students, the
bigger the chance they will have to suffer from diarrhea.
The street food sold at the elementary schools generally contain e-coli bacteria
that have a chance to be the cause of the incident of diarrhea. It is suggested that
the school have to provide hygienes cafeteria | en_US |
