THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NUTRITIONAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR PREGNANT WOMEN AND THE INCIDENCE OF STUNTING IN LHOK BOT, ACEH JAYA

Abstract

Health services are an effort provided by the public health center (puskesmas) to the community which includes planning, implementing, evaluating, recording, reporting, and pouring it into a system. Stunting is a condition of failure to thrive in children under five as a result of chronic malnutrition so that children are too short for their age and period. Growth will be stunted unlike normal-born children in general. Pregnant women are a group that is vulnerable to nutritional problems. Lack of nutrition for pregnant women has a very large impact on the child they are carrying. The purpose of this study is to determine if there is a relationship between maternal health services pregnant women with stunting and the relationship between nutrition of pregnant women who experience SEZ and stunting in the working area of ​​the Lageun Public Health Center, Setia Bakti sub-district, Aceh Jaya Regency. The method used is a quantitative method through a cross-sectional approach. The indicators used to assess health services for mothers  pregnant women were ANC, p-value = 0.095 (p>0.05), pregnant women received at least 90 Fe pills (blood-enhancing tablets) p-value = 0.002 (p<0.05), pregnant women who attended counseling  nutrition/class of pregnant women p-value = 0.246 (p>0.05), pregnant women got nutritional monitoring resulted p-value = 0.004 (p<0.05), households with pregnant women had family latrines with p-value  = 0.435 (p>0.05), pregnant women who had access to safe drinking water resulted p-value = 0.590 (p>0.05), households with pregnant women had health insurance results p-value = 0.435 (p>  0.05). Nutrition of pregnant women resulted p-value = 0.001 (p<0.05).  The results of the study found that there was a relationship between nutritional health services for pregnant women and the incidence of stunting. The results were carried out with the chi-square test to obtain results from the relationship between health services for pregnant women and the incidence of stunting.