Nutrition and Lifestyle Recommendations for Patients Recovering from Covid-19 in Nusa Tenggara Barat Province

Abstract

Providing nutrition for COVID-19 patients is one of many actions to reduce the risk due to symptoms of COVID-19. To help meet the nutritional needs of COVID-19 cured patients, we developed a nutritional needs recommendation system and predicted nutritional needs for COVID-19 recovered patients in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia with Technique for the Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution method (TOPSIS). We use data from COVID-19 Task Force in this province along with The Indonesian Dietary Recommendations to help decide which nutrition is needed by recovered patients. The criteria used in the prototype of this system are Age Group weight 3, Vegetable Consumption weight 4, Fat Consumption weight 4, Salt & Sugar Consumption weight 2, and Sports weight 3. After cranking the two patterns used, the Pattern Preference value is obtained 1 = 0.34980639174099 and Pattern 2 = 0.65019360825901 so that the highest preference value that can be used as a recommendation is Pattern 2 with a preference value of 0.65019360825901.