Stunting incidents in children in the working area of Puskesmas Moncongloe, Maros Regency

Abstract

Monitoring of Nutritional Status reveals that the incidence of stunting (short) in children is a major nutritional problem faced by Indonesia. The prevalence of stunting children has increased from 27.5% in 2016 to 29.6% in 2017. The purpose of this study was to describe the incidence of stunting in children in the working area of the PUSKESMAS Moncongloe, Maros Regency. The type of this research was descriptive observational with a population of 147 stunting children. The sampling method used accidental sampling with the number of sample was 108 respondents. The results of this study showed that from 108 children (100.0%) there were 16 children (14.8%) who had low birth weight and 92 children (85.2%) had normal birth weight, there were 62 children (57.4%) who were not exclusively breastfed and 46 children (42.6%) are exclusively breastfed, there were 51 children (47.2%) with incomplete immunization status and 57 children (52.8 %) with complete immunization status, there were 44 children (40.7%) with stunting in the very short category and 63 children (59.3%) in the short category. The conclusion of this study is the incidence of stunting in children is related to low birth weight, exclusive breastfeeding and immunization status.