Prevalence of malnutrition and stunting among under-five children: A cross-sectional study family of quality of life in agricultural areas of Indonesia

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Family quality of life (F-QOL) is necessarily issued for in fulfilling nutrition among under-five children that influenced their growth and development. OBJECTIVE: To examine the prevalence of malnutrition and stunting among under-five children and their correlation of F-QOL in agricultural areas of Jember regency, Indonesia METHOD: A cross-sectional study through a family based-survey was conducted among 424 family farmers in Jember regency of Indonesia November to December 2019 using a self-administered questionnaire consisted the characteristics of parents and children, quality of family life, family welfare, family awareness, and measurements of children’s age, height, and weight to identify stunting and malnutrition. T-tests of independence and the One Way ANOVA test was used to correlate the categorical and continuous variables, respectively. Furthermore, to determine the correlation among constant variables, we used a Product Moment test. RESULTS: Prevalence of wasted, stunted, and malnutrition among under-five children in agricultural areas were 3%, 18.9%, and 5%. There was a significant correlation between ethnic of family and type of family with HAZ (p = 0.007), respectively. Meanwhile, there was a significant correlation between WAZ and age of children (r = 0.106; p < 0.05). Furthermore, there were significantly correlation between FQOL and WAZ (r = 0.260; p < 0.01) and HAZ FQOL (r = 0.209; p < 0.01), respectively. CONCLUSION: Malnutrition and stunting are the biggest problems of nutritional status in Indonesia’s agricultural areas correlated with ethnicity and type of family. Meanwhile, the F-QOL is main correlated with stunting and malnutrition among under-five children in agrarian areas.