235HUBUNGAN SOSIAL EKONOMI DAN KARAKTERISTIK IBU DENGAN KEJADIAN STUNTINGPADA ANAK BALITA

Abstract

Stunting is a failure growth condition of children (under five aged) caused by chronic malnutrition so the children is too short for their age. Malnutrition occurs since the baby still unborn and in the early period after the baby born but stunting condition appears after the baby 2 years old.Now days, stunting is one of nutritional problems experienced by the children in the world, Indonesia, North Sumatera and Gunungsitoli town. Stunting needs special attention because it can hamper physical growth, mental development and health status of children.Based on literature study, it was found several factors could cause stunting towards the children such as socioeconomic including education, occupation, income and maternal characteristics including age, knowledge, number of children, supplementary feeding.The research purposed is to know the relationship socioeconomic (education, occupation, income) and maternal characteristics (age, knowledge, number of children, supplementary feeding) with the incidence of stunting towards the children in Hiliweto Idanoi at working area UPTD Puskesmas Gunungsitoli Idanoi sub district in 2020. Research method is quantitative method with cross sectional design. The population in this research are 63 mothers who have children (toddlers) in Hiliweto Idanoi Village by using total sampling technique. The analysis in this research is chi square analysis, if not eligible mustbe replaced with alternative test namely fisher’s exact test (table 2 x 2), Kolmogorov smirnov test (table 2 x K) or a combination of cell (table other than 2 x 2 and 2 x K). The result showed that there was a relationship income, occupation, number of children and supplementary feeding with the incidence of stunting where the result of the significant value were 0.001, 0, 025, 0.030 and 0.000 and there was no relationship education, knowledge and aged with the incidence of stunting where the result of significant value were 0.418, 0.197, 0.493