Increasing Eligible Women Knowledge As Primary Preventive Of Stunting

Abstract

Stunting is a chronic malnutrition problem caused by insufficient nutritional intake for a long time due to the provision of food that is not appropriate with nutritional needs. The effort to provide health education is an important effort to increase the knowledge of eligible women about stunting prevention. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of health education on stunting prevention on the knowledge of eligible women in Kediri Regency. This study was Pre Experimental Research with One Group Pre Test-Post Test Design. 476 respondents joining this research was obtained by Accidental Sampling technique. Data collection was collected by a questionnaire. Collected data was analyzed by the Wilcoxon signed-rank test to analyze the effect of Health Education Leaflet media on increasing the knowledge of eliglible women in Kediri Regency. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test result showed p-value= 0.000, which means p <α (α = 0.05). It can be inferred that health education about stunting prevention influencing eligible women knowledge in Kediri Regency. Government need to improve eligible women knowledge as the primary preventive of stunting in order to decrease stunting level prevalencies.