Prevention of Stunting Through The First Thousand Days of Life

Abstract

The prevalence of stunting has adverse effects in the short and long term and is associated with increased infant morbidity and mortality, decreased cognitive, motor, and socio-emotional development, as well as decreased learning achievement and learning ability, decreased work capacity, and productivity, and low ability of pregnant women. height to adulthood and increased obesity. Toddlers who are malnourished will be short and experience disturbances in brain growth and development so that it affects the level of intelligence because 80% of brain development occurs in the womb until the child is two years old. This study aims to determine the influence of direct and indirect factors on nutritional status to prevent stunting in children. This type of study uses a quantitative case-control approach. The population in this study is all mothers who have toddlers in the Pardasuka sub-district, Pringsewu district. The sample was taken by purposive sampling with a sample comparison of 1:1 with a case sample of 42 respondents, and a control sample of 42 respondents. Bivariate analysis using chi-square test. The results showed that the variables related to nutritional status were ANC =0.018 (OR=3.61), exclusive breastfeeding =0.022 (OR=3.31) and parenting =0.002 (OR=6.33). while the variable weight of newborns is not related to nutritional status = 0.069. The suggestion from this study is that it is hoped that parents can optimize their child's golden opportunity in the first 1000 days of life (HPK).