Hubungan Ketahanan Pangan dan Pola Asuh dengan Kejadian Stunting Balita pada Keluarga Miskin di Kabupaten Langkat

Abstract

Improverished condition can lead to the decrease of health in society which will impact on the country’s Human Development Index. One of the health problems in Indonesia that needs to be concerned is stunting suffered by children under five years of age with the prevalence of 24.4%. Food security and parenting patterns have become indirect causes of stunting on children in Indonesia. This research aims to analyze the correlation between food security and parenting patterns which include attention for women, breastfeeding and food feeding, psychosocial care, food processing, personal hygiene practices, and healthy home practices with the incidence of stunting on children under five in impoverished family in Langkat Regency. The research used Cross Sectional design with the samples of 238 children collected by using multistage random sampling. Data are collected using questionnaires which consist of data of family characteristics, food security, parenting patterns and children body height obtained through measurement using microtoise. The result indicate that 42.4% of children under five suffer from stunting. Bivariate analysis result using chi square test indicates that there is a correlation between food security (p < 0.001), attention to women (p < 0.011), breastfeeding and food feeding (p < 0.001), psychosocial care (p < 0.019), food processing (p < 0.001), personal hygiene practices (p<0.001), healthy home practices (p<0.001) with the incidence of stunting on children under five in impoverished family in Langkat Regency. The result of multivariate test using multiple logistic regression test shows that the personal hygiene practice with p value of 0.021 have the most dominant correlation with the incident of stunting on children under five in impoverished family in the Langkat Regency. Cross sector government is expected to be able to make a program to guide the impoverished family in Langkat Regency to improve food security and parenting of children under five.