| dc.description.abstract | Preschool children were highly at risk to be stunted as a result of decreasing chewing hard
foods characterized by high dental caries and unhealthy food intake due to the rapid
impoverishment of families by the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, recent few studies present contradictory
results.
This study aimed to determine dental caries as a risk factor on the stunting occurrence after
being controlled by dietary characteristics during the Covid-19 Pandemic. A nested case-control
study was conducted from August to September 2021. 62 of 295 children who were registered in
the birth cohort born from January 2016 to December 2016, were obtained by purposive sampling
and then, divided into two groups, i.e., 31 were in the stunting group and the other 31 normal
children were in the case group.
High dental caries status is significantly associated with stunting occurrence (COR = 21; 95%
CI, 0.80–156.20). High dental caries shows as a significant risk factor on stunting occurrence in
multivariable logistic regression test (AOR = 37.50; 95% CI, 6.97 – 201.76). Dental caries is a
dominant risk factor that increases the risk of stunting and it is confounded by less protein intake | en_US |
