PARENTAL NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF PRE SCHOOL CHILDREN (3 -5 YEARS OLD)

BACKGROUND : Parental nutritional knowledge will form an attitude towards children nutritional status. Good knowledge are expected to improve the nutitional intake of the children so that they could grow and develope as their aged. The preleminary study through interwiew obtained that there are still mothers who still do not understand about the right nutrition for chikdren accordance with children’a age. This tudy conducted to determine the correlationship between parental nutritional knowledge and nutritional status of pre school children. SUBJECT AND METHODE : This study is a correlational study conducted with cross sectional approach, this study involving 40 respondents who is taken by proprosional random sampling from 60 population. The data collected by using a quistoinnaire and anayze using correlation test. RESULTS : Analysis using Chi Square test show p value 0.001 < α 0.05 means that there are significant correlationship betwen parental nutrition knowledge and nutritional status of pre school children. CONCLUSION : Parental attention about nutritionplays an important roles in creating qualyfied generation  in the future. children nutritional status will determine with child’s intelligence.