Abstract
Background: Diarrhea is a disease still often encountered in society and is one of the biggest causes of death in children. Many factors contributed to the process of diarrhea, including poor nutritional status. According to the data from Riskesdas in 2018, 17.7% of children under five in Indonesia still have nutritional problems. This study was conducted with the aim to know the relationship between nutritional status, the severity of diarrhea and the length of stay among pediatric patients with diarrhea.Methods: This analytical study uses a cross-sectional design, with a total of 87 samples. Pediatric patients in Kaswari room from January 2019 to July 2020 with diarrhea or gastroenteritis, whose body’s length or height, weight and duration of stay listed in the medical record were included in this study, while patients with congenital abnormality like Hirschsprung disease were excluded from this study. The data collected were analyzed using the Fisher test and Chi-square test.Results: Out of 87 children, 49 (56%) of them had normal nutritional status, 78 (87.4%) children had modified vesikari score ? 11, and 68 children had a length of stay < 5 days (78.2%). The results of bivariate analysis between nutritional status and diarrhea severity showed that there was no relationship between the two variables (p = 0.426). The same results were obtained in bivariate analysis between nutritional status and length of stay (p = 0.916).Conclusion: In this study, there was no relationship found between nutritional status, the severity of diarrhea and length of stay among pediatric patients with diarrhea in Wangaya Regional General Hospital.
Highlights
Diarrhea, a defecating condition in infants or children more than 3 times per day, accompanied by changes inconsistency, in which the feces becoming watery with or without mucous and blood, is still one of the health problems that are often encountered in everyday life.[1]
Pediatric patients with diarrhea who were treated in the Kaswari room of Wangaya Regional General Hospital (January 2019July 2020), there were 87 data of pediatric patients obtained by consecutive sampling who were included in this study
The population in this study was all pediatric patients with diarrhea, hospitalized in the Kaswari room of the Wangaya Regional General Hospital from January 2019 to July 2020
Summary
A defecating condition in infants or children more than 3 times per day, accompanied by changes inconsistency, in which the feces becoming watery with or without mucous and blood, is still one of the health problems that are often encountered in everyday life.[1]. Various factors are known to play a role in the occurrence of diarrhea, one of which is the nutritional status (severe malnutrition).[8] According to the data from Riskesdas in 2018, 17.7% of children under five in Indonesia still have nutritional problems.[5] The 2017 Bali Profile stated that the proportion of children with severe malnutrition is 3.4%, while children with mild malnutrition are 14.4%.6. This study was conducted with the aim to know the relationship between nutritional status, the severity of diarrhea and the length of stay among pediatric patients with diarrhea. The results of bivariate analysis between nutritional status and diarrhea severity showed that there was no relationship between the two variables (p = 0.426). Conclusion: In this study, there was no relationship found between nutritional status, the severity of diarrhea and length of stay among pediatric patients with diarrhea in Wangaya Regional General Hospital
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