Green Bean Juice as Supplementary Food to Increase the Weight of Underweight Toddlers

Budi Susatia; Rizki Mustika Riswari

doi:10.3889/oamjms.2021.7494

Authors

Budi Susatia Department of Nursing, Poltekkes Kemenkes Malang, Malang, Indonesia
Rizki Mustika Riswari Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Poltekkes Kemenkes Malang, Malang, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2021.7494

Keywords:

Underweight toddlers, Green bean juice, Body mass index

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Toddlers with low body weight must receive treatment so as not to cause adverse health effects in the future.

AIM: This study aims to analyze the effect of additional food as green bean juice on changes in the bodyweight of underweight toddlers.

METHODS: This type of research was an experimental study involving one treatment group. The treatment was the provision of green bean juice. The subjects of this study were 15 people, who were selected by purposive sampling technique. Anthropometric examinations were carried out, namely, weight and height before and after treatment. The next stage is to test the difference in BMI between before and after being given additional food with green bean juice, using a paired sample t-test.

RESULTS: The results show that after being given the intervention as additional food with green bean juice to underweight toddlers, there has been an increase in BMI. However, the increase was tiny, which was confirmed by the results of statistical analysis that the increase was not significant.

CONCLUSION: It can be concluded that the addition of green bean juice can increase the BMI of underweight toddlers, but the increase is not significant. Furthermore, it is recommended to conduct further research by increasing the treatment dose.

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