The association between parenting style and nutritional knowledge of mother with the incidence of stunting children aged 7-24 months at the sawah lebar health center Bengkulu

Background: Stunting is based on the index of PB/U or TB/U with a threshold (z-score) ≤ -2 SD. Stunting is not only caused by one factor but is caused by many factors that are interconnected with each other. This study aims to determine the relationship between parenting and maternal knowledge about nutrition with the incidence of stunting in children aged 7-24 months at the Sawah Lebar Health Center in Bengkulu in 2023. Method: The research design used in this study was Descriptive Analytic with Cross Sectional approach and ampelous wasselected by accidental sampling technique with a sample of 52 people. This study used the Chi Square test with a confidence level of 95%. Results: Based on univariate analysis, the results showed that most of the mother's parenting style was good parenting (76,9%), while mother's knowledge about nutrition was mostly good knowledge (78,8%) and children were stunted, namely (15,4%). The results of bivariate analysis showed that there was a association between parenting style and the incidence of stunting with p-value (0,017) and there was a association between nutritional knowledge of mother and the incidence of stunting with p-value (0,001). Conclusion: There is an association between parenting style and nutritional knowledge of mother with the incidence of stunting aged 7-24 months in Sawah Lebar Health Center in Bengkulu City in 2023 Suggestion: Suggestions for mothers are expected to pay attention to the nutritional status of children, especiallypuskesmas to provide counseling to mothers who have children and toddlers about stunting, so that further research is expected on parenting and knowledge Mothers about nutrition by considering other factors that can affect the incidence of stunting such as child intake and infectious diseases.