Effect of Nutrition Therapy Dates for Short Term Memory of Students at Elementary School 060 886 and 060 889

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Vol 2, No 2 (2015)
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GSTF Journal of Nursing and Health Care (JNHC) Vol.2 No.2, August 2015

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Effect of Nutrition Therapy Dates for Short Term Memory of Students at Elementary
School 060 886 and 060 889
Nur Asnah Sitohang, Farida Linda Sari Siregar

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GSTF Journal of Nursing and Healt h Care ( JNHC) Vol.2 No.2, August 2015

Effect of Nutrition Therapy Dates for Short Term
Memory of Students at Elementary School 060 886
and 060 889
Nur Asnah Sitohang and Farida Linda Sari Siregar

Abstract--Improving the ability of short-term memory can be
a variety of things one of them with nourishing food and drinks
that contain enough sugar to the body. Sugar is safe for children
and can be directly used for metabolism, namely in the form of a
disaccharide sugar. Dates have a fairly high sugar content and
are generally derived from the type of glucose and fructose. The
research objective was to determine the effect of nutritional
therapy palm against short-term memory fourth grade students
in Elementary School No. 060 886 060 889 Elementary School
and Medan. Quasy experimental research design using pre post
design. There are two groups of respondents, intervention and
control. Purposive sampling technique. In the intervention group
were given nutritional therapy dates every day 100 g for 6 days.

On the first day before the given therapy short-term memory
measured using the test digit span forward and backward
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) after
15 seconds a child was told to repeat. On the day after consuming
the nutrients dates -6 done the same test (post-test). In the control
group was also done the same thing only difference was not given
nutritional therapy dates. Analysis of the data used paired t test
and independent t test. The results showed the average shortterm memory after the students in the intervention group were
given nutritional therapy dates = 25.33 seconds, SD = 20.61
seconds. The average short-term memory sisiwa posttest control
group = 43.18 seconds, SD = 50.41 seconds. Mean difference = 17
850 seconds. Statistical test results obtained value of p = 0.041
(