Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract child’s will enter one of the most important stages that was the golden period at preschool age 0 to 5 years old. problems from factors of child’s development like nutritional status, education and economic will effect child development. the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of children's nutritional status, stages of parental education and family economic status with child's development. this is analitic observational study with cross sectional design. the research location is at 8 ecd district leung bata banda aceh. early childhood that elected are aceh kids, smartkids, bhakti aulia, rhaudatul ilmi, keupula, al jannah, putro jihan and gema ceria. quotation samples performed by proportional sampling method, then 71 samples chosen by random sampling from 243 child population’s. this study begins from november 2012 to february 2013. data were analyzed using chi-square statistic and the alternative fisher statistic test with ? = 0,05. fisher alternative test between the nutritional status with child developmental obtained results were not significantly associated). result of chi-square test between the stages of parental education(p=0,05) and economic status of families (p>0,05) with child development outcomes also found not significantly have correlation (p>0,05). keyword: golden period, nutritional status, education level, economic status, child development