The Sanitary Conditions and Its Association with the Degree of Stunting of Children Under Five in Indramayu Regency

  • Tayong Siti Nurbaeti Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Wiralodra
  • Eko Maulana Syaputra Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Wiralodra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32583/keperawatan.v13i4.2086
Keywords: children, degree of stunting, sanitary condition

Abstract

Stunting is a linear growth failure caused by chronic malnutrition, where the Z-scores for height-for-age standards (height/age) are based on the World Health Organization (WHO) growth standards. The objective of this study was to analyze the sanitary conditions and the degree of stunting in children under five in Indramayu Regency. This study was descriptive-analytic research using cross-sectional method with the Chi-Square test. The sample was taken randomly as many as 400 stunting children in Indramayu Regency. The majority of the respondents have a moderate degree of stunting as many as 60,2%. The majority of the respondents with good sanitary conditions were 51%. The sanitary conditions were proven to be related to the degree of stunting in children under five in Indramayu Regency. The sanitary conditions affect the degree of stunting.