The correlation of mother parenting style with stunting incidence in toddlers aged 25-59 months at work area of Sentolo I Health Center, Kulonprogo District, Yogyakarta 2018

Abstract

Objective: This study explore public health issues mother parenting style with stunting incidence in toddlers aged 25-59 months at work area of Sentolo I Health Center, Kulonprogo District, Yogyakarta 2018.

Methods: This study used case control conducted in Februari until April 2018 at work area of Sentolo 1 Health Center in Kulon Progo Yogyakarta. Research subjects were mothers with toddlers aged 25-59 month at work area sentolo I health center and are in accordance with the criteria of inclusion and exclusion. The sample size is 102 respondents with a comparison of 1:1 as much as 51 for the case group and 51 for the control group. The independent variable in this research is stunting incidence and dependent variable is mother parenting style. This research uses a scale likert mother parenting style as a measuring instrument and study used univariate and bivariate analysis using Chi-square.

Result: The percentage in the most stunting group (64.7%) it was found in under-fives with poor parenting, while the majority (70.6%) of toddlers who were not stunting were found in children with good parenting. The results of the study showed that the measurement between mother's parenting variables with the stunting event was obtained by P-value 0.0001 (< 0.05), so that there was a relationship between the mother's parenting style with stunting incidence in toddlers aged 25-59 months with a value of OR 0.227 (95% CI 0.099-0.522).

Conclusion: There is a positive correlation between mother parenting style with stunting Incidence in toddlers aged 25-59 months at work area of Sentolo I Health Center, Kulonprogo District, Yogyakarta 2018