FAKTOR- FAKTOR YANG MEMENGARUHI PERILAKU IBU DALAM PEMBERIAN SARAPAN PAGI PADA ANAK DI SD ST.THOMAS 1 MEDAN TAHUN 2013

Breakfast is the food and drink that provide energy and other nutrients that were consumed in the morning. Breakfast is human need that should be regularly. Humans need to have breakfast,because it use to supply the sufficiency of energy for daily activities. If you don’t have itt, your body will not have energy to do your activity. This study was aimed to determine factors that influence mother behavior in the provision of breakfast to children in elementary school of St.Thomas 1 Medan. Some factor that influence were age, education, employment, knowledge and attitude. This research was a quantitative analytic study. The population of this study were all of students in St. Thomas 1 elementary school and 85 mothers of the student. The sampling technique was using stratified random sampling. The data was obtained by questionnaires and interviews and analyzed used Chi- Square test. The research results showed that there was no correlation (p> 0.05) between age, education, employment and mother’s behavior on giving breakfast and there was a correlation (p <0.05) between knowledge, attitude and mother’s behavior on giving breakfast. As recommendation in this study, the parents should give more attention and increase nutrition needs, especially in its quality and breakfast behavior of their children.