TY - JOUR AU - HASHIM, NUR SHAFIKAH AU - ALI, ASMA' AU - KAMARUDIN, KHAIRIL SHAZMIN AU - MOHD YUSOF, HAYATI AU - ZAKARIA, NOOR SALIHAH AU - SULAIMAN, NORHASMAH AU - MOHD SHARIFF , ZALILAH PY - 2021/11/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - ASSOCIATION OF HOUSEHOLD FOOD INSECURITY WITH ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AND NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF FISHERMAN’S SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN IN TERENGGANU, MALAYSIA JF - Malaysian Applied Biology JA - MAB VL - 50 IS - 2 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.55230/mabjournal.v50i2.1971 UR - https://jms.mabjournal.com/index.php/mab/article/view/1971 SP - 61-69 AB - <p>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, <em>n</em>=101) = 1.891, <em>p</em>=0.169. There is also no association found between household food insecurity with BMI-for-age c2(1, <em>n</em>=101) = 1.105, <em>p</em>=0.293 and height-for-age, <em>p</em>&gt;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.</p> ER -