Malahayati International Journal of Nursing and Health Science
Vol 2, No 2 (2019)

The correlation of the low birth weight with stunting incident on child aged 6-59 months in Lampung-Indonesia

Yesi Nurmalasari (Faculty of Medicine University of Malahayati, Bandar Lampung-Indonesia.)
Ringgo Alfarisi (Faculty of Medicine University of Malahayati, Bandar Lampung-Indonesia.)
Syawalia Kartika (Faculty of Medicine University of Malahayati, Bandar Lampung-Indonesia.)



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Publish Date
29 Nov 2019

Abstract

Background: Stunting or short was failed condition to grow of the baby (0-11 months old) and toodler (12-59 months old) impacted of the cronic malnutrition especially in the first 1.000 days of life its effecting the children to be too short. LBW is a factor that most dominant risk against stunting on child.Purpose : This research was to know the Correlation between history of low body weight of birth with the genesis stunting of the toodler aged 6-59 months in Mataram Ilir Village Seputih Surabaya Central Lampung 2019.Methods: This type of research is analysis observation with cross sectional design with purposive sampling as the sampling technique and Chi Square test as the bivariate analysis.Results: The results of the analysis showed that the frequency distribution of children with a history of LBW was 85 (35%), and the proportion of respondents with a history of normal weight birth was 152 (64.1%). While the frequency of the incidence of infants with normal height was 141 (59.5%), and the frequency of genesis stunting was 96 (40.5%). The results showed that the p-value was 0.005 and OR  was 2.282 (95% CI: 1.29 - 3.8).Conclusion: There was a significant relationship between history of LBW and genesis stunting.

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nursing

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Malahayati International Journal of Nursing And Health Science is a peer reviewed journal and provides a platform to publish area of nursing and health science. The journal also seeks to advance the quality of research by publishing papers introducing or elaborate on new methods in nursing and ...