HUBUNGAN PEMBERIAN ASI EKSKLUSIF DENGAN KEJADIAN STUNTING PADA BALITA DI PUSKESMAS SINGKUANG

Abstract

Stunting is a nutritiarcol prablem due to chranic mahrutlilian in the first 1000 days a life that will have sn impact ta growth and physical development and mentality of children. The Factors c*using stunting ane of them is lack af rcutritia during toddler **here is exclusive breast{eeding is the hest nutrition received by bab in the first 6 months af lfe The purpose af'this rese*yth is hnaw the relatianship exclusive breastJbeding vtith the iticidence af stuntifig in toddlers. This researclo is a quuntitttiire research witll correl*tion descriptive desigx, by using a cyoss sectionul apprutach. The populatian in this study tltere are !il7 toddlers. l{lzere is tke scmpling technique using randonz samp{ing obtain.ed 9j respondents. Instruments used in tlte fown oJ- a questiaxnaire and *nlhr*por*efyic measuring iwtrxments, The results of this study were obtained {67.7o/a) toddlers da nat get exc{usive byeastfeeding And toddlers u,hrs experience stunting iSB. io/o). T'his study used the chi-square test" The results af the chist1udre test p - 0.000 (p < 0.05), it shaws There is a relatianslrip betuveen exclusiue breastfeeding vith stunting in toddlers. conclusians and suggestions are There is a relationship between exc{usive breas*{eedi*g with stx*ti*g irt t*ddlers 2-5 years. Metke input f*r r*others i* give exclusive bre*stfeedingfor babies ta get *v*id sturrtivtg.