Pengelolaan Pelayanan Skrining Status Gizi pada Siswa SDN 104255 Desa Paluh Sibaji Kecamatan Pantai Labu Kabupaten Deli Serdang

Abstract

Senior practical writing is one of the activities in completing the final project in the Professional Nursing Education Study Program, Faculty of Nursing, University of North Sumatra. Nutritional status is a description of a person's daily nutrient intake or the balance between the intake of nutrients from food and the nutritional needs needed to metabolize the body. Meeting the nutritional needs of school-age children can support the physical and developmental needs of school-age children. Inadequate nutrition leads to malnutrition (undernutrition) and overweight (overweight). The purpose of this paper is to determine the screening of the nutritional status of elementary school children and the level of knowledge about nutrition at SDN 104255 in Paluh Sibaji. Data collection begins with collecting demographic data, anthropometric measurements, clinical examinations, calculating IMT/U, and giving questionnaires on the level of knowledge about nutrition and providing health education to school children. Respondents totaled 5 grade 5 elementary school children. The results of data collection obtained the majority of respondents have a nutritional status of less than 4 people (80%), and the level of knowledge of children about nutrition is in the category of less (100%). So it is hoped that health workers can increase counseling about nutrition for school children in schools and in the wider community.