Pemberdayaan Perempuan, Pola Konsumsi Pangan, dan Status Gizi Pekerja Bordir di Tasikmalaya Women’s Empowerment, Food Consumption Patterns, and Nutritional Status of Embroidery Employee in Tasikmalaya

Abstract

Women's empowerment actively increases women to achieve equal positions in work. This study aims to analyze the relationship between women's empowerment, income, food consumption patterns, and nutritional status of embroidery employees in Tasikmalaya. This cross-sectional study was conducted from December 2021 – January 2022 on 61 female subjects. Data were retrieved from interviews based on the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ), food recall, and Food Consumption Score (FCS). Most of the subjects were aged ≥40 years old (47.5%) with severe obesity (47.5%). The results showed significant relationship between women’s empowerment in the income domain (r=-0.362, p=0.004), resource domain (r=-0.255, p=0.047), milk frequency consumption (r=0.256, p=0.046), level of iron (r=-0.352, p=0.005), and consumption quality (r=0.266, p=0.038) with nutritional status. There is no significant relationship between wife and family income, frequency of consumption, level of adequacy of macro and micronutrients, knowledge, attitude, and nutrition practices with nutritional status (p>0.05).