Empowering Mothers in Preventing and Intervention Stunting through Maternal Assistance in Stunting Locus Areas

Abstract

Chronic nutritional intake and repeated infections in the first three years, failure to thrive is
caused by a lack, thus educational mothers is essential.This study aims to provide training
and assistance methods for mothers. The first was to develop a Mother Empowerment Model
in the prevention and intervention of stunting in toddlers were used a survey with a CrossSectional design for validation the model Implementation using Quasi-Experimental at a
second stage. The nonrandomized Control Group Pretest Posttest was designed to compile
Practical Guidebooks and VCD. In the 3rd phase, the experimental research used the Posttest–
Only to a Control Group design carried out in the 2nd year for determining its effects.
Mothers' empowerment and maternal characteristics strongly influence stunting. The tstatistic of mothers empowerment is 3.351, and the maternal characteristicsare8.629 > t-table
1.96. Empowerment has an indirect effect through exclusive breastfeeding. Mother's
characteristics indirectly affect knowledge, children's physical health and nutritional status. In
addition, family support indirectly affects stunting through motivation and exclusive
breastfeeding. Socioeconomic conditions, greatly determine the mother's ability to make
efforts to prevent and treat stunting. Family support increases the mother's motivation giving
exclusive breastfeeding, which affects the incidence of stunting in children.