Relationship Between Early Marriage and Incidence of Stunting in Children Aged 24-59 Months
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- 10.2991/978-2-494069-49-7_156How to use a DOI?
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- Marriage; Stunting; Child; Under-Fives Aged 24-59 Months
- Abstract
Stunting is one of the concerned nutritional problems in Indonesia and the world, with irreversible effect which caused of lack nutrition due to chronic manifestation of malnutrition with recurrent infections during the first 1000 days of a child’s life. One of the interrelated factors is the mother’s age at marriage that signify an impact on the mother and her born will be at greater risk stunting. This research was conducted to determine the relationship between early marriage and incidence of stunting in under-fives aged 24-59 months. This research is using an observational study with a cross-sectional research design on 130 toddlers in the Grogol Petamburan District Health Center, Wijaya Kusuma Sector from September to November 2019. Samples were taken using the consecutive non-random sampling technique. Data collected by questionnaire. Data analysis using chi-square and the significance level used was 0.05. Prevalence of early marriage of 38.5% and stunting 40%. There is a significant relationship between early marriage and incidence of stunting in under-fives aged 24-59 months (p = 0.001). The relationship between early marriage and stunting in under-fives aged 24-59 months is proven.
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TY - CONF AU - Refia Putri Restiana AU - Tubagus Ferdi Fadilah PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/29 TI - Relationship Between Early Marriage and Incidence of Stunting in Children Aged 24-59 Months BT - Proceedings of the 3rd Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Science 2021 (BIS-HSS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 924 EP - 929 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-49-7_156 DO - 10.2991/978-2-494069-49-7_156 ID - Restiana2022 ER -