POLA KONSUMSI ORANG DENGAN HIV/AIDS (ODHA) PEREMPUAN KE LOMPOK DUKUNGAN SEBAYA NUSA TENGGARA BARAT

Abstract

ABSTRACT
Women living with HIV infected from their husband are more experiencing decline in
confdence and quality of live. This confdence influences the food consumption patterns. This
s a descriptive research with quantitative data using cross sectional design. The data were
collected by interviewing women living with HIV using questionnaire in 2012. The population
n this study is the whole member of West Nusa Tenggara peer support group, totaling 25
person. The sample is the total population using saturated sampling technique. The result shows that most of women living with HIV are having food consumption frequency three times
(72%), and snack consumption frequency twice (40%). Most women living with HIV stated
that they rarely consume vegetable everyday (40%) and rarely consume fruits everyday (84%).
and most women living with HIV never consume packed food (68%) and rarely consume fast
food (60%). Milk consumption habit of women living with HIV is very rare, only 4% of the
respondents who stated always consuming milk. Sweet tea drinking is also rarely done (60%)
and most of the respondents don't consume coffee (56%). The proportion of the respondents
who stated consuming packed drink often is 8%. Herbal medicine and supplement are still
rarely consumed, and most of the respondents stated that they never consume supplement
(44%) and herbal medicine (80%). Nutrition education approach effort is an important to do to
women living with HIV through peer support group.