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HUBUNGAN POLA MAKAN, RIWAYAT PENYAKIT INFEKSI, TINGGI BADAN ORANG TUA DAN SUMBER AIR MINUM DENGAN KEJADIAN STUNTING PADA BALITA 24-59 BULAN DI WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS KALUMPANG, KOTA TERNATE.
Nutritional problems are essential for human survival. Nutrition has a serious impact
on the quality of Human Resources. Nutritional status is an important health indicator for
underfive children, because they are prone to health and nutrition problem which can be
physically detected through anthropometric measurement. Stunting is a condition of growth
failure in underfive children which caused by chronic malnutrition and leads to short heigth for
their age. Malnutrition starts to happened since the baby is in the womb until the early stage of
his life, yet this can only be visible after the child is 2 years old. Stunting is caused by
insufficient nutrient intake in a long period of time and commonly followed by frequent
incidence of sickness in children. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship
between dietary habit, history of infectious disease, height of parents, and sources of drinking
water with incidence of stunting in children aged 24-59 months in the service area of primary
health center of Kalumpang (Puskesmas Kalumpang). This is an analytical observational with
cross-sectional design. this study was done during October to November 2020 at Puskesmas
Kalumpang. The accidental sampling technique was used to recruit sample in this study with the
sample size of 50 respondents. The data were analyzed using a computer program and displayed
in tables and narratives. Statistical analysis was carried using Coefficient Contingency test
which was a test for two nominal scale variables. The function of this test is to determine the
relationship between two set of atributes. The result shows that there was significant
relationships between dietary habit (p=0.025), history of infectious disease (p=0.045), height of
parents (p=0.030) with incidence of stunting. While there was not a significant relationship
between sources of drinking water (p=0.106) with incidence of stunting in the service area of
Puskesmas Kalumpang, Ternate City.
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