Abstract
Disaster can cause several major problems such as food availability (quantity and quality) and mental illness especially in vulnerable group like children, women and the elderly, which in turn will cause disruption to the quality of sleep. Availability of food in good quantity and quality as well as sleep comfort are important factors that cannot be underestimated, especially for children who are still in their first 1000 days of life, because this stage is the golden stage of physical, cognitive, and social-emotional growth and development and would impact their quality of life in the future. Based on that matter, in this paper we will discuss the impact of floods and landslides in Agam Regency, West Sumatra on nutritional status and sleep disturbance in children aged 6-23 months. Sampling was done by consecutive sampling. The children were then asked by their parents to fill out the BISQ (Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire) questionnaire for ages 6 months to 23 months There were 32,1 % of the infants experienced sleep disturbances. Furthermore, our analysis of nutritional status revealed that of 35,7 % those with nutritional disorders is from the areas prone to flooding and landslides.
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