Malnutrition constributes to underlying cause of death of Indonesian underfives chilren. One of the
consequences of malnutrition in long time period is growth failure that is stunting. Low education of mother is
important risk factor for stunting. The aimed of study was to confirm wether maternal education for child
stunting in Banjarbaru. Crossectional design was implied to and 51 children aged 6-23 months old were
enrolled in study, which run for three months in the year 2013. Maternal education was calculated by year
complete of schooling and stunting was by z-score of height for age. Statistical test for data analysis used chisquare test with 95% confidence interval (CI). Result showed that there a significant association (p<0.05)
between maternal education and incidence of stunting in children 6-23 months of age. Mother with low
education level had 5,1 fold risk to have child stunting. The study confirmed that maternal education had an
important risk to child stunting aged 6-23 months old at least in the study site.
Keywords: children 6-23 months of age, maternal education, stunting

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JURNAL NASIONAL BEREPUTASI PENELITIAN GIZI DAN MAKANAN 2014 (Atikah Rahayu, SKM.,MPH)