Medical Faculty of Malahayati University

MEDICAL FACULTY OF MALAHAYATI UNIVERSITY
NURSING STUDY PROGRAM

Script, July 2013

I Wayan Sistha Madyana

THE RELATION BETWEEN VEGETARIAN LIFE STYLE AND
NUTRITION STATUS AT VEGETARIAN COMMUNITY IN GITA NAGARI
BARU VILLAGE, KAHURIPAN DALEM, TULANG BAWANG 2013

XV + 64 Pages + 5 Tables + 2 figures + 9 appendices

ABSTRACT

Vegetarian life style emphasizes on nutrition fulfillment by consuming more
vegetable although there are some vegetarian who still consume processed product of
animal such as milk and yoghurt. Nutrition status is a measurement about people’s
body condition that can be seen from the food that they consume and the use of
nutritious substances in their body. Theoretically, a vegetarian tends to lack of
nutrition due to only consuming vegetable whereas our body also needs nutrition from
animal. However, based on the studies conducted by some researchers, there are some
different results. According to the result of the studies, of 41 vegetarian respondents,
13 (32%)of them have fat nutrition status, 28 (68%)people have normal nutrition
status, and no one of them in the research has bad nutrition status. This indicates
nutrition status is not only determined by the food that people consume but it is also
determined by the life style that is applied by every individual. The purpose of this
research is to find out the relation between vegetarian life style and nutrition status at
vegetarian community in Gita Nagari Baru village, Kahuripan Dalem, Tulang
bawang, 2013.

The design of the research used cross sectional approach. The population of the
research is 41 people, and the technique sampling used in this research is total
sampling. The analysis of statistical test used in this research is chi square.

The result of the statistical test indicates that there is no relation between vegetarian
life style and nutrition status at vegetarian community at Gita Nagari baru village,
Kahuripan Dalem, Tulang Bawang, 2013 (p-value= 0.216). The suggestion for the
next researcher is to do the research with other variable which is related to vegetarian
life style such as the difference of the HB content between vegetarian and non-
vegetarian or the influence of being vegetarian toward children’s intelligence. so it
can be seen the benefit of being a vegetarian.

Keywords: vegetarian life style, nutrition status
Reference : 17 (1992-2012)