The Relationship Economic Status With Events Low Birth Weight (LBW) in Babies in The Working Area Of Mangaran Health Center Situbondo District

Abstract

A low birth weight baby (LBW) is defined as a baby weighing <2,500 grams and has a 20 times higher risk of dying at birth. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between economic status and LBW in the Mangaran Health Center Working Area, Situbondo Regency. This study used a quantitative method with a cross-sectional strategy. The number of research samples was the same as the population, namely 32 respondents. The results showed that 26 people (81.2%) had a low economic level and 17 babies (53.1%) were the majority of LBW respondents. Based on the Chi Square test analyzed using SPSS, the relationship between economic status and the occurrence of LBW with an Asymp.Sig value of 0.004 <0.005. This indicates that there is a relationship between the incidence of LBW in the Mangaran Health Center Working Area and economic status. Healthy food, accurate nutritional advice, and good health services are often not available to low-income mothers. This leads to pregnant women not getting adequate care from conception to delivery which increases the risk of LBW.