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Nutritional Enhancement of Day Care Pupils of Upper Naje, Arakan, Cotabato through Supplementary Feeding

JOURNAL:MAZEDAN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

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1. Jesica B. Arenga 08 Apr 2020 MIJSSH0101005 64 0
Abstract

This research explored mainly to determine the nutritional enhancement of day Care pupils of Upper Naje, Arakan, Cotabato through supplementary feeding. It determines the socio–demographic characteristics of the parents; effect of supplementary feeding; factors that influence the nutritional status of the pupils; relationship of the socio-demographic characteristics of the parents on the weight of the child. Respondents were 20 parents and 27 Day Care pupils. Socio– demographic characteristics of the parents were determined using frequency and percentage; T–test was used to determine the effect of the supplementary feeding; factors that influence the nutritional status were analyzed using mean; while the hypotheses were tested using multiple linear regression techniques. The findings revealed that majority of the parents were female, high school level, have small family size, and full-time housekeepers. Most of the father were elementary level with farming as main occupation and have an annual income of below Php 20,000.00. Socio–demographic characteristics of the parents significantly influenced the weight of the pupils. Among the significant predictors were number of children, educational attainment of the mother and father and parents’ annual income. The results revealed that there was a substantial increase on the weight of the pupils when supplementary feeding was administered. Financial capacity of the parents and supplementary feeding always influence their nutritional status. It could be concluded that the lesser the number of children and the higher educational attainment and income of the parents, the greater would be the influence on the weight of the child.

Keywords

Nutritional Enhancement, Supplementary Feeding, Day care

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