Height Of Children Research Articles

Anthropometric Training Impact on CHWs’ Skills in Child Height Measurement in Indonesia

Anthropometric Training Impact on CHWs’ Skills in Child Height Measurement in Indonesia

PENYULUHAN PENCEGAHAN STUNTING PADA ANAK DI SD NEGERI 060919

Stunting is a situation where a child's height is stunted compared to the height of children his age. In Indonesia, stunting is a problem in the health sector that is still high. This condition occurs because children are malnourished for a long time with signs of failure in the child's growth and development (growth faltering) which starts from pregnancy until the child is 2 years old. This is the formulation of our problem in holding outreach activities on the topic of Stunting at SD Negeri 060919, Kec. Medan Sunggal, Medan city. This article was created with the aim of providing education and information regarding stunting prevention. Thus, this activity is very useful in providing information about how to prevent and reduce the incidence of stunting. It is hoped that this activity will be carried out at SD Negeri 060919, Kec. Medan Sunggal, Medan City to pay more attention to the nutritional intake of mothers and children, so that the incidence of stunting in Indonesia is reduced.

Socioeconomic Level of Mrs. Baduta Stunting

Stunting is a chronic nutritional problem due to lack of nutritional intake in the long term, resulting in impaired growth in children. Stunting is also one of the causes of stunted children's height, so it is lower than children their age. This study aims to determine the socioeconomic level of stunting mothers. The quantitative research design of this study sample was 27 stunting mothers and the sampling method used total sampling. This type of research uses a descriptive method by collecting information from respondents by asking several survey questions. The results in this study are that the majority of stunting mothers are aged 20-29 years as many as 19 people (70.4%), the majority of stunting baduta mothers' education is SMK (51.9%), the majority of stunting baduta mothers' jobs are IRT as many as 25 people (92.6%). It can be concluded that a mother's educational history affects children's growth and development, family income affects the incidence of stunting and mother's work affects the occurrence of stunting in children. It is expected that mothers need to increase knowledge about nutritional status in feeding children.

Pemberdayaan Ketahanan Pangan pada Stunting di Desa Buana Mekar Kecamatan Panumbangan Kabupaten Ciamis

Introduction: Stunting is a condition where a child experiences growth disorders, so that the child's height and weight do not match his age. This is caused by a lack of nutritional intake for a long time. Indonesia is a country with multiple nutritional problems, characterized by a high prevalence of stunting and anemia in pregnant women.
 Objective: The aim here is that it is hoped that stunting cases that exist, especially in the Buana Mekar Village area, can be prevented. In this way, children can grow and develop well so that an intelligent and healthy young generation is created.
 Method: The community service method is carried out through counseling and discussions with female cadres at the Buana Mekar Village Hall, Ciamis Regency.
 Result: Based on counseling activities, it can be concluded that 16 people (40%) of the participants were able to answer questions before the implementation of health education, before the material was delivered, there were 24 people (60%) who did not answer questions. And after the presentation was delivered, the participants' knowledge increased 100%. So it can be concluded that the participants present quite understand the material presented.
 Conclusion: The conclusion of the implementation of health counseling activities regarding the handling of stunting went well in accordance with what was expected and planned. This health education is effective and has positive values for the counseling participants. This can be seen from the enthusiasm and activeness of these health education participants and the increasing knowledge about handling resistance to stunting before and after education is given.

Policy Strategies to Reduce Stunting Prevalence in Sawahlunto City

This study analyzes stunting reduction policy strategies in Sawahlunto City, one of the areas with the highest stunting prevalence in Indonesia. Stunting is a condition of low height of children according to their age, which can interfere with children's physical and mental development. Using a qualitative descriptive approach, research data were obtained from primary data from interviews and secondary data from documentation studies. Data is analyzed by source triangulation techniques, reducing data, presenting data, and drawing conclusions. The results of this study show that the stunting reduction policy strategy is in the form of a healthy kitchen program to overcome stunting (Dashat), which aims to increase balanced nutrition intake for families at risk of stunting through the provision of healthy food sources, processing of nutritious supplementary foods, providing nutritional counseling and cooking training, as well as monitoring and evaluating the nutritional status of children. Nevertheless, this policy strategy has not been successful because.

Edukasi Ibu Hamil Tentang Pencegahan Stunting di PMB Elvi Tiana, Amd. Keb Kota Batam

Stunting is a nutritional problem caused by a long-term lack of nutrition during the first 1000 days of life (HPK), which is a critical period. thus resulting in growth disorders in children, namely the child's height is lower or shorter (dwarf) than the standard age. The purpose of this study is to provide education to pregnant women about stunting prevention at PMB Elvi Tiana, Amd.Keb. The method used in this activity is a community service focus group discussion with an interactive question-and-answer lecture between the servant and pregnant women which lasts for 40 minutes. The number of pregnant women participating in community service is 20 pregnant women. Before the educational activity was carried out, a pre-test was given and after the activity, a post-test was given using a questionnaire instrument containing 20 questions about the knowledge of pregnant women about stunting prevention. The results from the Pre Test table and Post Test table can be concluded that there is an increase in Mother's knowledge about stunting prevention before and after community service is carried out for 20 pregnant women.

Sosialisasi dan Focus Group Discussion Pencegahan Serta Penanganan Stunting Sejak Dini di Desa Sumberanyar Kabupaten Bondowoso

Stunting is a condition where children under 5 years of age cannot grow due to chronic malnutrition, causing them to be shorter than their age. The aim of this socialization is to identify the stunting problem in Sumberanyar village as well as present material on preventing and handling stunting in Sumberanyar village. The implementation method gathered midwives, 10 posyandu cadres, posyandu members in the PKK room at the Sumberanyar village hall. Next was the presentation of material about preventing and handling stunting, then conducting a Focus Group Discussion (FGD). In this activity, the results of the formulation of the stunting problem in Sumberanyar Village were obtained, namely, cigarette smoke, mother's knowledge, snack food, and the habit of defecating in the river. Meanwhile, activities that have been carried out by midwives and Posyandu cadres to prevent stunting include giving worm medicine, giving supplementary food (PMT), latrine building programs, classes for pregnant women and measuring children's height and weight. Based on the activities that have been carried out, it is known that 60% of posyandu cadres and posyandu members have a good level of knowledge and 40% have sufficient abilities before participating in socialization activities. Furthermore, after carrying out socialization regarding the prevention and handling of stunting, the number of posyandu cadres and posyandu members who had a good level of knowledge increased to 80% and the level of sufficient knowledge became 20%. This activity can also help posyandu cadres and members get better information that focuses on preventing and handling stunting.

The Role of Parents in Watching Generation Alpha Assistance

When it is important for parents to maintain the spectacle consumed by children. Judging from the data on mobile users, it is very high. Even from the Ministry of Communication and Information, there are 143.26 million people or 54.68 percent of Indonesia's population using the internet with users aged 13-18 years. Meanwhile, other data from the Minister of Communication and Information Rudiantara revealed that as many as 93.52 percent of internet users, 65.34 percent, are aged 9-19 years. While the latest data from BPS describes data for 2022, as many as 33.44% of early childhood aged 0-6 years in Indonesia are already able to use cell phones, 24.96% of early childhood in the country are also able to access the internet. Parents must be wise in addressing the height of Alpha generation children who were indeed born in the digital era. Of course , people know they have challenges in choosing what to watch. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method which is carried out by observing, interviewing parents who find it difficult to choose shows for their children and parents who experience concerns about children's behavior caused by shows that children see such as YouTube. The results of the study show that not all of the alpha generation are negatively affected by viewing on smartphones and smart TVs. There are other positive impacts, especially if parents play an important role in accompanying children's viewing by conducting parenting mediation.

Predictors of parenting difficulties at the 18-month health checkups: A retrospective study using administrative data from infant health checkups.

This study aimed to identify predictors of parenting difficulties at 18 months from the results of the 4-, 6-7-, and 9-10-month infant health checkups among caregivers who had not experienced difficulties at 4 months. This retrospective study used data from infant health checkups conducted in a city in Tokyo from November 2019 to October 2021. The participants were caregiver-child dyads of children who had undergone four checkups. Low birthweight, preterm, and multiple birth infants, and caregivers who experienced difficulties at 4 months were excluded. Data included caregiver, child-rearing environment, and child factors at the 4-, 6-7-, and 9-10-month checkups and caregivers' self-reported parenting difficulties at the 18-month checkup. Of the 555 caregivers, 48 (8.6%) experienced parenting difficulties at 18 months. Logistic regression analyses showed that mothers' physical condition (4 months), children being male, abnormal child growth (4 months), less than 10th percentile for children's height (6-7 and 9-10 months), and abnormal examination results (6-7 months) were significantly associated with parenting difficulties at 18 months. To prevent child abuse, public health nurses should consider the identified factors to detect and support caregivers with emerging parenting difficulties.

Ідіопатична низькорослість: особливості поліморфізму Taql гена VDR рецептора вітаміну D

The causes of idiopathic short stature (IS) are diverse and not well understood, including polymorphisms of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene, dysfunction of growth hormone (GH) secretion, or certain structural abnormalities of the GH cannot be denied. The Taql polymorphism is located at the exon-intron junction and can potentially affect the stability of the VDR gene mRNA and, consequently, the child's height. Purpose - to study of the influence of the Taql polymorphism of the VDR gene in children with IS on certain indicators of bone metabolism. Materials and methods. We studied 22 children aged 10.68±3.28 years diagnosed with idiopathic short stature. The following data were taken into account: sex and age of the patient, anthropometric data, blood vitamin D level, bone age, basal and after stimulation tests, and Taql polymorphism of the VDR gene. All data were analyzed by non-parametric methods of variational statistics using the computer program MedCals (2006). Results. All children with IS had low vitamin D levels, regardless of the Taql polymorphic locus of the vitamin D receptor gene. All children with IS, regardless of the Taql polymorphic locus of the vitamin D receptor gene, were found to have low vitamin D levels. The basal level of GH in all patients was low, while the stimulated level of GH was normal in all patients. Conclusions. In the group of patients with IS, the frequency of the T/C (TaqI T/C, g.65058 T>C) genotype is 1.63 times higher than in the group of healthy subjects. Carriage of allele C of the polymorphic locus rs731236 Tagl of the VDR gene is significantly associated with the risk of developing idiopathic short stature - OR (Odds ratio) =1.68 (95% CI (confidence interval): 1.41-2.01; p<0.001), and in the presence of the T/C genotype the risk of this pathology is significantly high - OR=3.78 (95% CI: 1.23-11.63; p<0.02). Vitamin D deficiency was found in children with the T/T polymorphism, and vitamin D deficiency was found in patients with the T/C and C/C polymorphisms. The research was carried out in accordance with the principles of the Helsinki Declaration. The study protocol was approved by the Local Ethics Committee of the participating institution. The informed consent of the patient was obtained for conducting the studies. No conflict of interests was declared by the authors.

Pola Asuh Makan, Pengetahuan Ibu dan Status Ekonomi Orang Tua pada Balita dengan Status Gizi Bermasalah di Pusat dan Pinggir Kota

The toddler years are the most important period, where children need adequate nutrition to support their physical growth. This study aims to determine the description of parenting patterns, mothers’ knowledge level, and parents' economic status for toddlers with problem nutritional status in the city center and outskirts of the city in the work area of ​​the Gambok Health Center, Sijunjung Regency in 2022. This research is a descriptive study with a cross-sectional study design. The population in this study was toddlers with problematic nutritional status (undernutrition and overnutrition) totaling 60 people. Collecting data using a questionnaire and direct measurement of the height and weight of children under five. The research results were analyzed univariately and displayed in the form of a frequency distribution table. The results of this study indicate that more than half of the bad parenting patterns (75%) in toddlers are found in the outskirts of the city, while in the city center, the parenting patterns are good (100%). More than half of the mothers (82.5%) have a good level of knowledge living in the city center, while more than half of the mothers (60%) have a low level of knowledge living in the Outskirts of the City. The economic status of parents in the City Center (95%) and Outskirts of the City (50%) already have sufficient economic status. Based on this, it can be concluded that parenting patterns, mothers’ level of knowledge, and parents' economic status are some of the factors that cause toddlers to have problematic nutritional status. This research can be developed by adding other factors that can affect the nutritional status of toddlers.

Design Stunting Detection Applications Using Artificial Intelligence on Android Devices

In this era, careful attention is needed to the development and growth of children, so that if there is an abnormality it can be detected as early as possible. One of the main factors that affect the growth and development of children is the nutritional factor. Lack of knowledge about growing children causes parents not to realize if their child has a disorder such as stunting. Stunting must be detected as early as possible so that solutions can be given to prevent it from happening. These problems must be corrected immediately and the development of the child is not disturbed. Therefore we need an application that can detect stunting disorders in children from an early age so that they can be handled quickly and precisely. In making this application, it will detect the child's height and weight through the camera to perform a nutritional check that detects the child is stunted or not. This application uses artificial intelligence or Artificial Intelligence based on android. Weight measurement results will be sent from the weighing system to the application using the Bluetooth address for the connection so that the weight results can be displayed on the application. Height measurement is carried out using the camera in the application which will detect the child's height through an image. The test results show that the stunting detection application is very helpful for parents to observe the growth and development of children without having to use and calculate children's nutritional problems manually.

Clinical Characteristics and Therapeutic Management of Osteogenesis Imperfecta in Iraqi Children

Background: Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a rare congenital condition that results in bone fragility, recurrent fractures, and various extra-skeletal manifestations. Currently, intravenous bisphosphonate is the mainstay of medical treatment in OI. Objective: To identify the effect of current management strategies on Iraqi children diagnosed with OI. Methods: A retrospective study enrolled OI patients who were registered in Central Child Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq, from January 2015 to December 2022. We enrolled confirmed OI cases (either clinically and/or radiologically) who received cyclic pamidronate therapy for at least 3 cycles. They neither received other types of bisphosphonates nor underwent surgical intervention. Results: A total of 52 cases of OI had been identified, but only 36 patients were eligible for the current study. The mean age of the patients was 6.64±4.22 years. A statistically significant drop in the annual fracture rate in OI patients who received intravenous pamidronate cycles was seen, along with a significant rise in weight for age Z-score, lumbar spine bone mineral density DEXA Z-score, and alkaline phosphate levels. No significant improvement was documented in height for age Z-score in OI patients. Conclusions: Intravenous pamidronate cycles for Iraqi children with osteogenesis imperfecta work to lower their risk of breaking bones every year and raise their weight, lumbar spine bone mineral density, and alkaline phosphate levels. Pamidronate did not result in an improvement in the height of OI children.

The Relationship between Exclusive Breastfeeding and Clean Water with Stunting in Toddlers

Introduction: Stunting is an acute nutritional problem where a child's height does not match their age. Stunting is caused by a variety of factors. The incidence of stunting in Jambi Province is still quite high, especially in East Tanjung Jabung Regency, namely at the Simpang Pandan Community Health Center, with a prevalence of 24.58%. Objective: This research aims to determine the relationship between exclusive breastfeeding and clean water and the incidence of stunting. Method: This study aims to determine the relationship between exclusive breastfeeding and clean water and the incidence of stunting. Results and Discussion: The results of the research show that there is no relationship between exclusive breastfeeding and the incidence of stunting in toddlers, and there is a relationship between access to clean water and the incidence of stunting in toddlers in the working area of the Simpang Pandan Jambi Community Health Center. Conclusions: There is a relationship between access to clean water and the incidence of stunting in toddlers

Penanggulangan Kasus Gizi Kurang Dengan Intervensi Demo Masak Di Desa Rugemuk Kec. Pantai Labu

<em><span lang="IN">Medan City is a part of North Sumatra Province. The prevalence of undernutrition and malnutrition in Medan City in 2013 was 19.3%, consisting of 4.2% of malnutrition and 15.1% of undernourished. This prevalence rate is close to the national figure, which is 19.6%. Meanwhile, based on the 2015 MDG's target, the prevalence of malnutrition and under-five children is 15.5%, this prevalence rate is included in the high category. The methods used in this community service are counseling, demonstrations and measurement of nutritional status. The result of the service is that counseling is carried out 3 times. It was carried out once at the Puskesmas Rugemuk Pantai Labu District. In the cooking demonstration, the material provided is the use of abundant ingredients from Rugemuk Village, such as sea fish, shrimp, squid into various foods that have high nutritional value and are of sale value. The processed food is in the form of fish nuggets. From the results of the intervention and observations made, there are several children in Rugemuk Village whose nutritional status is lacking. The conclusion in this service is that the intervention activities carried out to solve the problem are counseling to the community as well as data collection and measurement of height and weight in children. All activities went well and smoothly, counseling to the community as well as data collection and measurement of height and weight for children.</span></em>

COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT WITH STUNTING FILTERS TO CREATE HEALTHY FAMILIES

Stunting is a condition where a child experiences growth disorders, so that the child's height does not correspond to his age, as a result of chronic nutritional problems, namely lack of nutritional intake for a long time (Ministry of Health, 2020). The results of the 2018 Regional Health Research (Riskesdas 2018) show that toddlers in Indonesia aged 0-23 months still experience shortness of breath or very shortness of breath. This shows that there is a bright spot in the implementation of intervention programs in accelerating the reduction of stunting rates which cannot be separated from the cooperation of every existing element. The difference in the average knowledge of pre- and post-education cadres providing education to improve care for low birth weight babies was obtained by a mean pre-education value of 2.60 and a mean post-education value of 1.40. The standard deviation value for pre-training is 0.308 and post-training is 0.40. The Wilcoxon z value is -4.102. The statistical test results of the Wilcoxon signed rank test obtained a value of p = 0.000 (p < 0.05). Thus, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference between before and after training in cadres' knowledge about early detection of stunting in toddlers. The community service program to assist families at risk of stunting is a new breakthrough in determining effective and integrated, community-based strategies to reduce the risk of stunting.

Validation of remote child weight and height measurements within a weight management trial.

The aim of this substudy within the Treatment Efforts Addressing Child Weight Management by Unifying Patients, Parents, and Providers (TEAM UP)pragmatic clinical trial was to compare the validity of anthropometric measurements collected remotely versus in person (≤7 days apart) among youth with obesity who were 6 to 15 years of age. Child (n = 37) weight and height were measured in person by a trained data assessor. These were compared with measurements taken remotely by the child's parent with live videoconferencing observation by a study data assessor. In-person and remote measurements were compared using Bland-Altman plots, Pearson correlations, and two one-sided paired t tests. A priori bounds of acceptability were set at ±0.68 kg to allow for typical weight fluctuations within the 7-day comparison period. Measurements were highly correlated (height: r = 0.991, p < 0.0001; weight: r = 0.999; p = 0.03). For height, two one-sided t tests for upper, t(36) = 3.95, and lower, t(36) = -2.63, bounds (-1, 1) revealed an overall p = 0.006; absolute error was 3.5 cm. For weight, two one-sided t tests for upper, t(36) = 1.93, and lower, t(36) = -7.91, bounds (-0.68, 0.68) revealed an overall p = 0.03; absolute error was 1.7 kg. The present findings support the utility and interpretation of remotely assessed weight management outcomes for both research and clinical purposes. These procedures may offer greater accessibility to evidence-based measurement.

Violent conflict and the child quantity–quality tradeoff

Abstract We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohorts. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal, which experienced a 10 year long civil conflict of varying intensity. We exploit that villages affected by the conflict had the same trend in fertility as non-affected villages prior to the onset of conflict and employ a difference-in-differences estimator. We find that women in affected villages increased their fertility during the conflict by 19%, while child height-for-age declined by 10%. Supporting evidence suggests that the temporary fertility increase was the main pathway leading to reduced child height, as opposed to direct impacts of the conflict.

Implementasi Buku Skrining dan Stimulasi Motorik kasar Anak Stunting Usia 0-60 Bulan Dalam Peningkatan Pemahaman Isu Stunting Masayarakt di Desa Mancasan

Stunting, a chronic nutritional problem characterized by a child's height below the standard for his or her age, is still a challenge in Indonesia. According to data from the Ministry of Health, the prevalence of stunting in Indonesia in 2021 is 24.4%. In Mancasan Village the prevalence of stunting reached 24%. This figure is quite high, considering that stunting can have a negative impact on children's growth and development, both physically and cognitively. One effort to prevent stunting is to carry out early screening and provide gross motor stimulation. Stunting screening can be done using a screening book and motor stimulation for stunted children aged 0-60 months. This community service is carried out using educational methods, namely lectures and questions and answers. The results of community service show that there has been an increase in community understanding about screening and gross motor stimulation of children aged 0-60 months from 12.9% to 28.6%. It is hoped that this increase in community understanding can reduce the incidence of stunting in Mancasan Village.

Body height and spinal pain in adolescence: a cohort study from the Danish National Birth Cohort

ObjectivesTo investigate how body height and trajectories of height from infancy through childhood and adolescence were associated with spinal pain in pre- and late adolescence.MethodsThis prospective study included 43,765 individuals born into The Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC) from 1996 to 2003. DNBC-data were linked with health and social data identified from Statistics Denmark registers. Spinal pain was self-reported in both the 11-year- and 18-year follow-up of DNBC and classified according to severity. Body height was measured from birth and onwards and further modelled as distinct developmental height trajectories by using latent growth curve modelling. Associations were estimated by using multinomial logistic regression models.ResultsTaller body height in childhood and adolescence was associated with approximately 20% increased likelihood of spinal pain in pre- and late adolescence among girls compared to their peers in the normal height group. For boys, taller body height was associated with spinal pain by late adolescence only. Spinal pain in pre-adolescence almost doubled the likelihood of spinal pain in late adolescence regardless of body height at age 18. Height trajectories confirmed the relationship for girls with the tall individuals being most likely to have spinal pain in both pre- and late adolescence.ConclusionTall body height during childhood and adolescence predisposes to spinal pain among girls in both pre-and late adolescence, and among boys in late adolescence. Body height is a contributing factor to the pathogenesis of spinal pain in adolescence; however, the mechanisms may be related to growth velocity, but for now uncertain.