Fulfillment of Nutrition as an Effort to Prevent Stunting From Early Age on Adolescent Girls in Pahandut Sub-district Palangka Raya City
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Abstract
Stunting is a chronic malnutrition problem caused by a lack of nutritional intake for a long time, resulting in growth disorders in children in which the child's height is lower or shorter than the standard for their age. Stunting occurs when nutrient consumption is insufficient in a child's life. The impact of stunting in the short term is impaired brain development, while the impact of stunting in the long term is impaired physical, intellectual, and mental growth and development of children, low productivity, and high risk of disease. Adolescence is an important period in human growth and development. Adolescent girls are prospective mothers who have a role in giving birth to healthy offspring in the future. Knowledge is the most important thing in an effort to prevent Stunting because the higher knowledge, the better prevention attitude is expected to be formed. The research design used was a Correlational with Cross-Sectional approach; Sampling using the Total Sampling technique; The sample of this research was adolescent girls in the Pahandut sub-district, Palangka Raya City, totaling 69 people. The data collection instruments used questionnaires. The analysis used a Chi-Square statistical test. Based on the results of the Chi-Square statistical test, the analysis results obtained p value = 0.000 or a significance level of p <0.05, so H0 was rejected so that there was a relationship between the level of knowledge about nutritional fulfillment and attitudes as an effort to prevent stunting early on adolescent girls in Pahandut sub-district, Palangka Raya City. There was a relationship between the level of knowledge about nutritional fulfillment and attitudes in an effort to prevent stunting early in adolescent girls in the Pahandut sub-district, Palangka Raya City.