Background: Indonesia is the fifth-highest number of stunting incidence in the world. Mothers’ conditions before, during, and after pregnancy were as major cause of stunting. This study aims to analyze the risk factors of stunting among children under two in Surabaya. Method: Analytical survey with a cross-sectional design was conducted on 233 selected samples from December 2019 to January 2020. Dataset for the Chi-square test comes from the measurement of the body height of under two-year-old children and interviews with mothers.Results: It shows that factor related to stunting under two-year-old children in Surabaya is history of Antenatal Care (ANC) during pregnancy (p-value =0,005). Pregnant mother who did non-routine ANC may risk 0,360 times higher to stunting condition. The incidence of stunting in Surabaya is not influenced by factors such as age, education, work status, income, history of Fe and protein consumption. Health office shoud encourage pregnant women to do ANC more than 4 times during pregnancy.
Toddler, grup of children age ranging from 1-3 years old (under 3 years old) and 3-5 years old (preschool), is a vulnerable group to Covid-19 infection. Covid-19 caused by SARS-Cov 2 Virus that became a global pandemic since March 2020. Because of that, toddler care should be adjusted to health protocol given by the government in order to prevent the transmission of Covid 19. Generally, the knowledge and attitude of mothers at RW 1 Gondrong Subdistrict towards toddler care during Covid 19 pandemic are limited. Team 249 in Group 8 KKN BBN 62nd Airlangga University consider the need to educate the mothers to increase knowledge and attitude of toddler health and growth during pandemic. This health education is given to toddler’s mothers who attends routine posyandu. The topic of health education given by the member of Team 249 is about toddler care during Covid 19 pandemic. Pre-test and post-test questionnaires are distributed to measure the knowledge and attitude before and after the education. The result shows that majority of the mothers whose age less than 35 years (60%), have higher school education (70%) and are housewives or unemployed (80%). The ratio of post-test and pre-test score showed that the knowledge and attitude of toddler’s mothers about toddler care during Covid 19 pandemic has increased. It is strongly suggested to be a new habit for the mothers to intensively care for their toddlers, especially during the Covid 19 pandemic.abstrakBalita merupakan salah satu kelompok umur yang rentan terinfeksi Covid-19, penyakit disebabkan oleh Virus SARS-Cov 2 yang menjadi pandemi global sejak Maret 2020. Batasan usia balita adalah 1-3 tahun (batita) dan 3-5 tahun (pra sekolah). Oleh karena itu, perawatan balita pada masa pandemi covid-19 harus disesuaikan dengan protokol kesehatan yang ditetapkan pemerintah untuk memutus rantai penularannya. Akan tetapi, pada umumnya pengetahuan dan sikap ibu dari balita yang tinggal di RW 1 Kelurahan Gondrong Kota Tangerang kurang memahami hal tersebut. Kelompok 249 Grup 8 Kuliah Kerja Nyata BBM Periode 62 Universitas Airlangga memandang perlunya edukasi sebagai upaya untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan dan sikap para ibu terhadap kesehatan dan kecukupan tumbuh kembang untuk balita pada masa pandemi. Edukasi yang diberikan berupa penyuluhan kesehatan kepada para ibu yang menghadiri kegiatan rutin posyandu. Materi penyuluhan kesehatan yang disampaikan oleh anggota Kelompok 249 adalah mengenai perawatan balita pada masa pandemi Covid-19. Setiap ibu diberikan kuesioner pretest dan posttest untuk mengukur perubahan pengetahuan dan sikap ibu terhadap kesehatan balitanya sebelum dan sesudah mendengarkan penyuluhan. Hasil kegiatan ini menunjukkan karakteristik ibu yang mengikuti kegiatan mayoritas berusia kurang dari 35 tahun (60%) dengan tingkat pendidikan SMA (70%) dan status pekerjaan sebagai ibu rumah tangga atau tidak bekerja (80%). Perbandingan skor pretest dan posttest menunjukkan adanya peningkatan pengetahuan dan perhatian mengenai kesehatan dalam merawat anak balitanya di masa pandemi Covid 19. Pengetahuan dan mengenaisikap mengenai kesehatan balita diharapkan menjadi kebiasaan baru yang dilaksanakan oleh para ibu dengan konsisten dalam merawat dan membesarkan anak balitanya, khususnya di masa pandemi Covid 19.
Background: Stunting is one of the nutritional problems experienced by toddlers, nowadays. Based on data from Global Nutrition Reports in 2014, three million children under five in the world are malnourished every year, and globally, the bad impact of diseases caused by malnutrition reaches billions of dollars. This situation can be prevented by improving nutrition in the first thousand days of life which begins during mothers’ pregnancy until the children age two years. Currently, According to data from riskesdas, Stunting in Surabaya increases rapidly. In 2013, the number of children diagnosed with stunting was 21 % and got its peak by 29% in 2018. Purpose: The study aims to identify the risk factors of stunting in children, especially in their two-year age or under, in a working area of Wonokusumo Health Center. Method: This research is an analytic observational study with a cross-sectional design. The sampling technique that is used is a non-probability sampling technique with a consecutive sampling method, totaling 56 children. Primary data were obtained by measuring the height of the children using microtoise, and interviewing the mothers using a questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using the chi-square test through the Epi Info 7.0 application. Result: The obtained-result of the research was a significant relationship between the inactivity of attending an integrated service post (posyandu: Pos Pelayanan Terpadu) with the stunting (P = 0.03; PR = 0.21). There was also no significant relationship between the number of children, the level of maternal knowledge, the state of mother's employment, the states of exclusive breastfeeding, the complete state of basic immunizations, and the history of infectious diseases (P> 0.05) with stunting. Conclusion: the absence of attending an integrated service post (posyandu: Pos Pelayanan Terpadu) is a factor that has a significant relationship with stunting among children under two in the working area of The Wonokusumo Health Center.
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