This study aims to determine mothers' level of awareness, motivation, and intentions in preventing stunting in dry areas that tend to be food insecure. The type of research used was qualitative, using a phenomenological approach through interviews, forum group discussions, and observations. The informants involved were 20 mothers with babies 0-23 months and 3 health workers responsible for the Kupang Regency stunting program. The mother's awareness regarding stunting prevention efforts could be seen from the mother's knowledge, action cues, and risk perception. In-depth interviews were conducted with informants regarding the mother's motivation, reflected in the mother's attitude and self-confidence in carrying out stunting prevention efforts. The results of FGDs and in-depth interviews with mothers revealed that they knew nothing about stunting and had never even heard of the term. This was similar to what health workers stated; people generally did not know the term stunting. Actions to prevent stunting in the form of breastfeeding revealed that they act to provide breast milk to children which is part of efforts to prevent stunting due to encouragement from health workers and also families. The mother's intention to make efforts to prevent stunting properly is by doing a number of things, including providing nutritious food, routinely checking children at the Puskesmas and taking good care of them. The conclusion is mother's awareness regarding stunting prevention efforts, judging from the variety of mothers' knowledge, some have never heard of the term stunting, some know the term stunting but don't know what it means. Their cues to act were obtained from health workers and their families. Perceptions of risks related to stunting in children, mothers consider it not a problem.

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Based on the results of research related to diarrheal diseases in various regions in Indonesia, there are several interrelated factors, namely inadequate supply of clean water, water polluted by feces, lack of sanitation facilities, unhygienic disposal of feces, poor personal and environmental hygiene, and improper processing and storage of food. Many factors can directly or indirectly be a driving factor for the occurrence of diarrhea, consisting of host agent, environmental and behavioral factors. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the knowledge of the patient's family and the prevention of diarrheal diseases at the Makassar Akademis Hospital. This type of research is descriptive with the research design used is the Cross-Sectional method, namely the type of research that emphasizes the time of measurement / observation of independent and dependent variable data only once. Place This research was conducted in the inpatient room of the Makassar Akademis Hospital. According to the results of data analysis using the chi-square statistical test, a value of p = 0.000 (p <0.05) was obtained, this means that there is an environmental relationship with the incidence of diarrhea in toddlers in the child care room at the Makassar Akademis Hospital. The conclusion is that there is a relationship between environmental, socio-economic conditions, and mother's knowledge with the incidence of diarrhea in the child care room at the Makassar Akademis Hospital.

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