Hubungan Status Stunting dengan Perkembangan pada Anak Usia Pra Sekolah di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Kemumu Kabupaten Bengkulu Utara

Abstrak

Stunting is a growth failure on children because lack of nutrition so children becomes too short for their age. In Indonesia, there are 37% of toddler suffer from stunting with stunting prevalence the 5th of the world. Stunting toddler has no maximum cleverness, easier to get sick and has a risk decreasing productivity in the future and obstruct the economy growth, increase poverty and there will be more imbalance. Stunting prevalence in Bengkulu are 29,4% where the highest incident in North Bengkulu (35,5%) to analyze the stunting status with social personal growth, soft motoric, language and hard motoric on pre-school children at North Bengkulu Regency. This research uses cross-sectional design with 100 children as sample and taken by using purposive sampling. Stunting status assessment are assessed with height z-score according to age (height/age) and classified according to WHO. The children growth are measured with Denver II test. Ada are analyzed by using chi-square. There are 32 children with stunting cases, statistic correlation test shows that there is correlation between stunting status with children social personal growth (p=0.163) and language (p=0.119) on pre-school children age. There is a correlation between stunting case with Soft motoric (p=0.003) and hard motoric growth on pre-school children (p=0.004). There is a correlation between stunting status with soft motoric and hard motoric growth on children.