Effect of Stunting on Intelligence Quotient (IQ) of School-Age Children

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10.2991/aer.k.210825.032How to use a DOI?

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Stunting, Intelligence Quotient, School-Age Children

Abstract

The World Health Organization for Child Growth Standards estimates that at least one in four children under five years of age fails to grow optimally according to established standards. Nutritional status on height for the period under standard or stunting is a manifestation of malnutrition and is a severe health problem. This study analyzes the relationship between stunting on the intelligence quotient (IQ) of school-age children. This research is a quantitative study with the design used as observational analytic with an unmatching case-control. The sample consisted of 75 stunting cases and 75 control cases collected in August – October 2019 in Palembang City. The stunting variable analyzes the z-score in determining the categorical nutritional status. Interviewed with the respondent’s mother to measure environmental sanitation, history of infection, breastfeeding, economic status, food intake, mother and father’s education. The instrument for assessing student intelligence questions used the CPM (Colored Progressive Matrics) test. From the results of statistical show a significant relationship between stunting with Intelligence Quotient (IQ) in children (p = 0.000, OR: 4,57 (95% CI:2,1733-9,6873). There are significant relationship between environment sanitation (p = 0,04 OR: 2,245 (95% CI: 0,908-5,720), economic status (p = 0,009 OR: 2,5 (95% CI: 1,189-5,333) and food intake (p = 0,005 OR: 2,82 (95% CI: 1,271-6,398) and no significant relationship between the history of infection (p = 0,841 OR: 1,181 (95% CI: 0,15- 9,11), to the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) of school-age children. Children with stunting affect intelligence and have 5.2 times lower average intelligence quotient (IQ) than children who are not stunting after being controlled by confounding variables environmental sanitation, economic status, and food intake.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wahyu I.D. Aurora
AU  - Rico J. Sitorus
AU  - Rostika Flora
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/26
TI  - Effect of Stunting on Intelligence Quotient (IQ) of School-Age Children
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Green Development International Conference (GDIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 176
EP  - 180
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aer.k.210825.032
DO  - 10.2991/aer.k.210825.032
ID  - Aurora2021
ER  -