Relationship of Diet with Gastritis in Nursing Students of Universitas Klabat

Abstract

Diseases that arise today result from an instant lifestyle and dietary errors such as eating frequency, type of food, and the portion of food, which has become a trend today. One of the diseases that many people complain about is gastritis. Gastritis can attack all levels of society from all levels of age and gender and can be acute and chronic. The percentage of gastritis incidence in Indonesia, according to WHO, is 40.8%. According to the order of disease in the Puskesmas, gastritis ranks 4th with 10,260 sufferers. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between diet and gastritis in students of the nursing faculty of the University of Klabat. This type of research is quantitative with a cross-sectional approach. The research sample is nursing students totaling 186 respondents who were taken by consecutive sampling methods. The data obtained were then carried out with statistical tests of the percentage and spearman rank. The results of the analysis showed that there was no relationship between eating frequency (p-value 0.947 > 0.05), type/variety of food (p-value 0.496 > 0.05), and meal portions (p-value 0.352 > 0.05) with gastritis. Recommendations to further researchers are to expand the research area by increasing the number of respondents, using different research designs, and adding other variables such as age, gender, cigarette use, coffee and alcohol consumption, gas drinks, and stress that is thought to be associated with gastritis.

Keywords: diet, eating frequency, gastritis, meal portion, type of food