Research Paper
Year: 2021 | Month: January | Volume: 8 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 654-659
Food Availability and Parenting Relationships toward the Incidence of Stunting of Toddlers 2-5 Years (Case Study: Fishing Families in Sabang City)
Rahma Wati Sari1, Evawany Y. Aritonang2, Etti Sudaryati2
1Postgraduate Students Faculty of Nursing at Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
2Postgraduate Lecturer Faculty of Nursing at Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Rahma Wati Sari
ABSTRACT
Stunting reflects the delay in growth that affects failure to achieve normal and healthy height according to age. Stunting problems if not handled can continue to adulthood. Food availability is one of the factors that can affect stunting in infants. Food availability is good in terms of quantity and quality to be the main capital in the adequate intake of family nutrition. Parenting is a mother’s care in the form of providing nutritious food, maintaining personal hygiene and health care for toddlers aims to support the growth of toddlers is part of parenting. This study aims to analyze the relationship between food availability and parenting with the incidence of stunting of toddlers 2-5 years in fishing families in Sabang City. This study was an observational study using a cross-sectional design. The samples in this study amounted to 128 toddlers. Family food availability data is obtained using food list recall. Foster pattern data consists of feeding practices, self-hygiene practices and health practices using questionnaires. Data analysis was done using Chi-square statistic test. The results showed a significant relationship between availability of family protein food with incidence of stunting (p=0.000<0.05), and foster pattern consisting of feeding practices with incidence of stunting (p=0.000<0.05). Self-hygiene practices with incidence of stunting (p=0.000<0.05) and health practice with incidence of stunting (p=0.000 <0.05). Only availability of family energy food that has no significant relationship with incidence of stunting has a value (p=0.104>0.05).
Keywords: Food Availability, Parenting, Stunting.
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