Faktor Yang Mempengaruhi Status Gizi Remaja Usia 16-18 Tahun

Increased activity and busy activity of adolescents can affect their eating habits. Adolescent nutritional status needs to be considered to maintain health in the future. Adolescent nutritional status can be influenced by energy consumption and physical activity. The aim is to determine the characteristics of adolescents, the relationship between energy consumption, and physical activity with the nutritional status of adolescents aged 16-18 years. Observational research method with cross-sectional research design. The population in this study was class X and class XI students, while the sample used was 72 students. The sampling technique in this study was systematic random sampling. Data were collected by interview using a structured questionnaire for energy consumption and physical activity variables. The results of this study indicate that energy consumption with adolescent nutritional status has a significant level of relationship where the significant value is 0,000, pvalue < 0.05. Physical activity with adolescent nutritional status has a significant value of 0.004, p-value < 0.05. The conclusions of this study shows that there is a relationship between energy consumption and nutritional status and there is also a relationship between physical activity and nutritional status.