The Effect of Health Promotion on Pregnant Women's Attitudes in Stunting Prevention

Abstract

Stunting is caused by various problems, one of which is a lack of health promotion so that mothers cannot take a stand in preventing stunting, to reduce stunting problems, nurses need to make promotional efforts, namely providing health education about stunting to pregnant women, so that with health education, mothers can take a stand to prevent stunting from the time of pregnancy. The literature review method was used to determine the effect of health promotion on the attitudes of pregnant women in preventing stunting. Journal searches using Indonesian are conducted using the Google Scholar academic database published in 2017-2020 and obtained 6 research results according to the inclusion criteria. The research design used was Pre-Experimental, quasi-experimental, and True Experiments. The results of the analysis of 6 studies showed similarities, namely the influence of health promotion on the attitudes of pregnant women in preventing stunting with a p-value <0.05.  Based on the results of this Literature Review research, from 6 journals analyzed, it shows that there is an effect of health promotion on the attitudes of pregnant women in preventing stunting. It is hoped that nurses can improve health promotion related to stunting prevention for pregnant women so that they can prevent stunting in children since in the womb.