ASSOCIATION OF HOUSEHOLD FOOD INSECURITY WITH ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF FISHERMAN’S SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN IN TERENGGANU, MALAYSIA

https://doi.org/10.55230/mabjournal.v50i2.1971

Authors

  • NUR SHAFIKAH HASHIM Department of Food Science, Faculty of Fisheries and Food Science, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Malaysia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2266-5970
  • ASMA' ALI Department of Food Science, Faculty of Fisheries and Food Science, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Malaysia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4400-6749
  • KHAIRIL SHAZMIN KAMARUDIN Department of Food Science, Faculty of Fisheries and Food Science, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Malaysia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9200-6666
  • HAYATI MOHD YUSOF Department of Food Science, Faculty of Fisheries and Food Science, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Malaysia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5356-1459
  • NOOR SALIHAH ZAKARIA Department of Food Science, Faculty of Fisheries and Food Science, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Malaysia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2194-038X
  • NORHASMAH SULAIMAN Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1478-6131
  • ZALILAH MOHD SHARIFF Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Keywords:

academic performance, fishermen’s children, household food insecurity, Malaysia, nutritional status

Abstract

This study was conducted to establish the relationship between household food insecurity (via Household Food Insecurity Access Scale), academic performance (overall class position through School Exam Analysis System), and the nutritional status (BMI-for-age and height-for-age determination) of fishermen’s children in Terengganu. This was a cross-sectional study involving 101 fishermen’s children aged 7 to 11 years old. The data were analyzed using the Chi-square test. The result shows that the prevalence of children with food insecurity was 43.2%. It was found that 24.2% of fishermen’s children were good at the academic level while 51.3% were moderate and 24.2% were poor. BMI prevalence for children who were normal 69.3% and remaining was 6.9% obese, 2.0% overweight, 12.9% thinness, and 8.9% severe thinness. For height-for-age, 8.9% were stunting, normal 88.1%, tallness 2.0%, followed by severely stunted 1.0%. There is no association found between household food insecurity and academic performance c2(1, n=101) = 1.891, p=0.169. There is also no association found between household food insecurity with BMI-for-age c2(1, n=101) = 1.105, p=0.293 and height-for-age, p>0.05 (with Fischer exact value = 0.093). Further studies must be carried out to produce further evidence of household food insecurity for fishermen in other Malaysian states, to prevent this group from being ignored.

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Published

30-11-2021

How to Cite

HASHIM, N. S. ., ALI, A., KAMARUDIN, K. S. ., MOHD YUSOF, H., ZAKARIA, N. S., SULAIMAN, N., & MOHD SHARIFF , . Z. (2021). ASSOCIATION OF HOUSEHOLD FOOD INSECURITY WITH ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF FISHERMAN’S SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN IN TERENGGANU, MALAYSIA. Malaysian Applied Biology, 50(2), 61–69. https://doi.org/10.55230/mabjournal.v50i2.1971

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