Background: Nutritional problems do not always occur in poor families, in fact many of under five years in poor families in good nutritional status which have normal height (not stunting) based on the parenting in the family. The positive parenting in poor families are feeding habit, parenting habit, hygiene habit and health services habit. Objectives: This research aim to observe the parenting of feeding habits, parenting habits, hygiene habits and health services habits on the incidence of toddler’s stunting on poor families in the city of Palembang.Methods: This research was an observational study which using a quantitative approach with a Cross Sectional Study design. It took 100 mothers who have children aged 24-59 months from poor families in the city of Palembang were chosen by proportional random sampling.Data taken regarding feeding habits, parenting habits, hygiene habits, and health services habits obtained through questionnaires, and the incidence of child stunting obtained from measurements of children's height using a toddler's height measurement tool. Data analysis to observe the relationship between variables using the Chi-Square test.Results: The results showed the proportion of toddler stunting in poor families in the city of Palembang was 29%. There was a significant correlation between feeding habits (p-value = 0.000); parenting habits (p-value = 0.001; hygiene habits (p-value = 0.021) and health services habits (p-value = 0.000) on the incidence of toddler’s stunting.Conclusion: Normal height (not stunting) toddlers have positive deviance of feeding habits, parenting habits, hygiene habits and health services habits better than stunting under five years with same economic backgrounds family

Background: Stunting is a result of a malnutrition state that accumulates for an extended time and is a threat to the future of Indonesian children. The incidence of toddler’s stunting is indirectly related to the role of parenting in the family, namely feeding, nurturing, hygiene and getting health services. The aim of the study was to analyze the correlation of parenting to the incidence of toddler’s stunting on poor families in Palembang.Methods: This research was an observational study which using a quantitative approach with a Cross Sectional Study design on March 2019. Data samples of 100 mothers who had children aged 24-59 months from poor families in Palembang were chosen by proportional random sampling.Result: The results showed that the proportion of toddler’s stunting in poor families in Palembang was 29%. The results of bivariate analysis showed that there was a relationship between feeding habits (p = 0,000); parenting habits (p = 0.001); hygiene habits (p = 0.021); and the habit of getting health services (p = 0,000) with the incidence of stunting for toddlers.Conclusion : Normal height (not stunting) toddlers have parenting habits such as feeding habits, nurturing habits, hygiene habits and the habit of getting health services better than stunting toddlers in the same economic backgrounds family.

Latar Belakang: Stunting menjadi permasalahan utama gizi yang harus diselesaikan mengingat ini adalah ancaman bagi masa depan anak-anak Indonesia. Stunting dapat terjadi pada anak manapun yang tidak secara mutlak dipengaruhi oleh kemampuan ekonomi keluarga. Pada keluarga miskin masih dapat dijumpai anak dengan status gizi baik yang ditandai dengan tinggi badan yang normal. Dengan keadaan tersebut pola asuh keluarga positive deviance berperan besar terhadap status gizi anak. Pola asuh sebagai inti pendekatan positive deviance yaitu kebiasaan pemberian makan, kebiasaan pengasuhan, kebiasaan kebersihan dan kebiasaan mendapatkan pelayanan kesehatan.Tujuan: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat gambaran pola asuh positive deviance dan kejadian stunting balita dari keluarga miskin di Kota Palembang.Metode: Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian observasional dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan desain studi cross sectional. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada ibu balita dari keluarga miskin di Kota Palembang, dengan informan sebanyak 5 (lima) orang ibu dari balita stunting dan 5 (lima) orang ibu dari balita normal (tidak stunting).Hasil: Balita dengan tinggi badan normal (tidak stunting) dari keluarga miskin mendapatkan pola asuh positive deviance yaitu kebiasaan pemberian makan, kebiasaan pengasuhan, kebiasaan kebersihan dan kebiasaan mendapatkan pelayanan kesehatan yang baik. Sedangkan balita stunting dari keluarga miskin mendapatkan pola asuh yang tidak baik.Kesimpulan: Ibu dari balita dengan tinggi badan normal memiliki pola asuh positive deviance berupa kebiasaan pemberian makan, kebiasaan pengasuhan, kebiasaan kebersihan dan kebiasaan mendapatkan pelayanan kesehatan yang baik terhadap balitanya dibandingkan dengan ibu dari balita stunting dengan latar belakang perekonomian yang sama.

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