| Summary: | Background : The Province of Papua has the potential for abundant local food stock, particularly various kinds of tubers and sago, that have become staple foods of Papua for long. However, consumption level of such food is relatively low and little. Consumption of local foods per day is lower than that of other sources of carbohydrate.
Objective : To identify the average difference of nutrition education and information communication and the utilization of local wisdom to feeding pattern, nutrient intake and nutrition status of undernourished underfives local inhabitans of Papua at Jayapura Municipality, Province of Papua.
Study Design : The study was a Quasy Experiment. Samples of the study were undernourished underfives that met inclusion criteria as many as 80 underfives consisting of 40 from the intervention group and 40 from the control group. The study was undertaken at Abepura, Koya Barat and Hamadi Health Centers. The result of the study was analysed using paired t test and independent t test.
Results : The result of statistical t test showed before experiment there was no difference in eating pattern of local and non local food, nutrient intake and nutrition status of underfives (p>0.05) between the intervention group and the control group. The result of paired t-test after Nutrition Education and Information Communication through leaflet, poster and local food recipes showed there was no significant difference (p>0.05) in local and non local food eating pattern. There was significant difference of energy intake suffiensi in the intervetion group (p>0,05) and there was significant difference of carbohydrate intake sufficiency in the intervention group and control group (p<0.05). There was no difference of protein intake sufficiency between the intervention and the control group and there was significant difference of nutrition status in the intervention group (p<0.05). The result of independent t-test showed there was no significant difference of nutrition education and information communication to eating pattern of local and non local food, energy intake sufficiency, protein and carbohydrate (p>0.05), there was significant difference of nutrition education and information communication to underfives nutrition status (p<0.05)
Conclusion : There was no average difference of local and non local food eating pattern, there was average difference of energy and carbohydrate intake sufficiency, there was no average difference of protein intake sufficiency and there was average difference of underfives nutrition status with weight/age indicator z score based.
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