Stunting Prevention Behaviors Based on Family Centered Nursing with Lokal Value in Pesawaran Regency

Abstract

Stunting is toddler’s failure to thrive condition because of chronic malnutrition. This kind of chronic malnutrition is caused by recurrent infection and insufficient parenting. which occurs during the first 1.000 days of life over long period. This research aims to assess the family empowerment’s influence based on Family Centered Nursing with local value towards family’s behavior of stunting risk,   includes the knowledge, attitudes, preventing action of stunting in Pesawaran Regency. It was the quantitative research with quasi-experimental design complete with intervention and control group which each of group consisted of 42 family who risk of stunting in Pesawaran Regency with purposive sampling technique. Intervention group received health education by using module based on local value with intensive mentoring, while the control group without the mentoring and analysis data carried out by using Paired test, Wilcoxon test, and Mann-Whitney test. It was found that the intervention based on Family Centered Nursing with local value gave significance effect on increasing all of studied variable. In the intervention group, there was a significance increase for the knowledge [Δ2=2.62], attitude [Δ=3.98], action [Δ=4.14]. Mann-Whitney value was 269,500 with a Z value was -5,636 and the significant between knowledge, attitude, and action after the treatment was 0,000. Based on the result of the research it was found that the significance difference statistically on the knowledge, attitudes, and actions between control and intervention group based on Mann-Whitney test [p < 0,05]. Intervention group showed better improvement in all three-measured aspects. Intervention program that have been proven effective should.