HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN GIZI DAN POLA PEMBERIAN MAKAN DENGAN KEJADIAN STUNTING PADA BALITA USIA 24-59 BULAN DI WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS PATEBON 2 KENDAL

The prevalence of stunting in Kendal Regency is still quite high, stunting can be caused by several factors, namely nutritional knowledge and feeding patterns. This study aims to analyze the relationship between nutritional knowledge and feeding patterns with the incidence of stunting in toddlers aged 24-59 months in the Patebon 2 Kendal Health Center Working Area. The cross-sectional design used in this study with a sample of 143 mothers and toddlers was taken by proportional sampling technique. Research instruments of nutritional knowledge and feeding patterns in the form of questionnaires and data analysis of stunting using KMS. Data analysis using fisher exact test with significance (>0.005). The results of 24.5% of toddlers in this study experienced stunting nutritional knowledge of mothers of toddlers in the good knowledge category (77.6%) and feeding patterns with the right category (67.8%). The results of this study showed no significant relationship between nutritional knowledge and the incidence of stunting (p = 1.00) and no relationship between feeding patterns and the incidence of stunting (p = 0.836). Disscusion is that there is no relationship between nutritional knowledge and feeding patterns with the incidence of stunting in the working area of the patebon 2 kendal puskesmas, it is recommended that further research examine the attitudes and behavior of mothers in providing food intake to toddlers which can affect the incidence of stunting.