Hubungan Pemberian Asi Eksklusif Dengan Kejadian Stunting Pada Balita Di Rsud Sultan Iskandar Muda

Abstract

Background: Currently, stunting is one of the nutritional problems experienced by toddlers in the world). One of the causes of stunting is the delay in Early Initiation of Breastfeeding (IMD), and non-exclusive breastfeeding.
Objective: To determine the relationship between exclusive breastfeeding with the incidence of stunting in children under five at the RSUD Sultan Iskandar Muda.
Methods: The type of research is analytic observational with research design using case control. The samples of this study were children under five who experienced stunting as the case group as many as 60 toddlers and toddlers who did not experience stunting as a control group as many as 60 toddlers. The case sampling technique was purposive sampling and the control sampling technique was systematic random sampling. Data were analyzed by chi-square test and statistical odds ratio (OR) test.
Results: Showed that of the 65 infants who were exclusively breastfed or about 16.6% (n = 11) experienced stunting and infants who were exclusively breastfed about 83.1% (n = 54) did not experience stunting. not exclusively breastfed, most or about 89.1% (n=49) experienced stunting while toddlers who were not exclusively breastfed about 10.9% (n=6) did not experience stunting. The results of the chi-square test obtained p-value = 0.000 < = 0.05 and X2 count = 62.06, this means that there is a relationship between exclusive breastfeeding and the incidence of stunting in the UPTD of the RSUD Sultan Iskandar Muda in 2025.
Conclusion: There is a relationship between exclusive breastfeeding and stunting in toddlers at the RSUD Sultan Iskandar Muda.