Literature Review: Pemberdayaan Ibu Sebagai Upaya Peningkatan Status Gizi dan Perkembangan Anak Balita

Abstract

Toddlers are children who are in the age range 0-5 years. Every toddler has a different development. In 2018, in Indonesia there was an increase in the percentage of very short and short toddlers, namely 11.5% and 19.3%, while it is known that in the previous year the percentage of very short toddlers was 9.8% and short toddlers was 19.8%. One of the causes of developmental delays/deviations in children is inadequate nutrition by the mother. Empowerment of mothers is needed to increase the knowledge and ability of mothers in fulfilling their children's nutrition. The purpose of this study was to obtain an overview related to research on efforts to empower mothers in improiving nutritional status and development that had been carried out by previous researchers. This research uses literature review method. Researchers analyzed 15 journals consisting of 10 national journals and 5 international journals and were divided into 2 types, namely 6 empowering journals and 9 journals discussing the relationship between nutritional status and under- five development which were obtained from the Google Schoolar, Pubmed and Science Direct databases by formulating inclusion and exclusion criteria based on the PEOS formula.The results of the study from 15 journals showed that 6 journals had the effect of mother empowerment on the nutritional status of toddlers, 7 journals proved that there was a relationship between nutritional status and toddler development. and 2 journals whose results do not show a relationship between nutritional status and toddler development. The conclusion is that empowering mothers can be one of the efforts to improve the nutritional status and development of toddlers Keywords: Mother’s empowerment, Nutritional status and Toddler Development