Pemberian makanan tambahan pada balita untuk pemulihan status gizi stunting di Posyandu Mawar Sari

Abstract

The main factors causing stunting are unbalanced food intake, history of low birth weight (BBLR) and history of disease (Jiang et al., 2015).  Protein deficiency is also often found simultaneously with lack of energy which causes a condition called marasmus (Hildagardis Meliyani Erista Nai et al., 2019). Research Objective to determine the effectiveness of providing additional feeding counseling to toddlers to prevent stunting at posyandu mawar sari. This type of service activity is preceded by a pretest which aims to measure the mother's knowledge before counseling is given. Then counseling was given about related material, after which a post test was carried out with the material that had been given which aimed to measure the mother's knowledge after counseling. The service conducts a pretest with the aim of seeing the level of understanding of counseling participants before counseling, the results of the pre test and post test are very different because the results of the pre test are only 27.50 on average this indicates that the counseling participants do not understand the material to be delivered so that the score is very low. The results of the post test are very good at 94.07. Counseling on supplementary feeding for mothers under five with stunting nutrition and less successful well, based on pre and post activity questionnaires that have knowledge of making supplementary food to prevent stunting increased by 66.57%.