Risk Factor for Stunting at Balung Health Center, Jember Regency, Indonesia

Abstract

Stunting is a condition of failure to thrive in children under five years of age as a result of chronic malnutrition so that the child is too short for his age. The prevalence rate of stunting in Indonesia is still above 20%, meaning that it has not reached the target. Factors that influence stunting include birth length and birth weight. The purpose of this study was to determine the description of the factors that influence the incidence of stunting in children aged 0-59 months in the working area of the Balung Public Health Center in 2021. This research is descriptive in nature which was conducted Stunting is a condition of failure to thrive in children under five years of age as a result of chronic malnutrition so that the child is too short for his age. The prevalence rate of stunting in Indonesia is still above 20%, meaning that it has not reached the target. Factors that influence stunting include birth length and birth weight. The purpose of this study was to determine the description of the factors that influence the incidence of stunting in children aged 0-59 months in the working area of the Balung Public Health Center in 2021. This research is descriptive in nature, which was conducted in the working area of Puskesmas Balung, Jember Regency in April 2021. The population is children under five with age stunting. 0-59 months recorded in the EPPGBM in February 2021. Sampling in this study was carried out by total sampling, namely as many as 639 stunting toddlers. Of the 639 stunted children under five, 347 were male and the majority occurred at the age of 12-23 months, namely 150 under five. From 639 toddlers, it describes 516 toddlers with normal body length and 123 toddlers with short birth lengths. Meanwhile, the birth weight of 639 children under five shows that 422 children under five were born with normal birth weight. From the data above, it can be concluded that the majority of children under five with stunting in the working area of Puskesmas Balung were born with normal body length and weight. For this reason, it is necessary to carry out further research on the relationship of several risk factors using statistical tests. In addition, it is also necessary to look for other risk factors that can cause stunting in children