Proceedings of the 3rd Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Science 2021 (BIS-HSS 2021)

Relationship Between Early Marriage and Incidence of Stunting in Children Aged 24-59 Months

Authors
Refia Putri Restiana1, Tubagus Ferdi Fadilah2, *
1Student of Medical Education Study Program, Faculty of Medicine, Trisakti University, Indonesia
2Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Trisakti University, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: tb_ferdi_md@trisakti.ac.id
Corresponding Author
Tubagus Ferdi Fadilah
Available Online 29 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-49-7_156How to use a DOI?
Keywords
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Science 2021 (BIS-HSS 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
29 December 2022
ISBN
978-2-494069-49-7
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-49-7_156How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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