By: Aprilia Nur Khasanah, Aulia Pasha Adiyani, Dwi Larasati Nur Fibrie, Dina Aulia Nurfiana, Endang S. Rahayu
Abstract
Students are one of the aspects needed in the realization of Health Promoting University launched by Gadjah Mada University. However, with a dense activity makes many students who do not pay attention to a healthy lifestyle. Whereas at the moment there is also a Covid 19 pandemic that requires a healthy lifestyle of students. A healthy environment is a state that includes physical, mental and social health is not only a state free from disease. To provide information on the gut health of student can be conducted survey of fecal quality and probiotic consumption. The survey was conducted for 10 days by 60 respondents by filling out a questionnaire on the google form. The data obtained is then processed with Microsoft Excel, and SPSS. From the survey obtained probiotic consumption 70% of students never/rarely consume probiotics. In the frequency of defecation, 90% of students had a normal frequency, 93% of students had a normal stool consistency and 95% of students had a normal stool color. This shows no relationship between probiotic consumption and defecation frequency according to spearman’s statistical analysis of 0.05 significance.
Keyword: Probiotics, Students, gut health.
*This poster was presented in The 6th International Conference of Indonesian Society for Lactic Acid Bacteria and Gut Microbiota (6th ISLAB) on 13th August 2021
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