PENGARUH EDUKASI GIZI TERHADAP PENGETAHUAN IBU TENTANG STUNTING DI PUSKESMAS PAGAR MERBAU KAB.DELI SERDANG TAHUN 2025

Stunting is a chronic nutritional problem that causes impaired growth and development of children, and has a negative impact on the quality of human resources in the future. One effort to prevent stunting is to increase maternal knowledge about nutrition and proper parenting patterns. This study aims to determine the effect of nutritional education on maternal knowledge about stunting at the Pagar Merbau Health Center. The research method used a quasi- experimental design with a pretest-posttest approach on 23 respondent mothers. Data were collected through a questionnaire that measured the level of maternal knowledge before and after being given nutritional education. Data analysis was carried out using the Paired Sample t-test to see the difference in knowledge scores before and after the intervention. The results showed that the average knowledge score before education was 2.43 (SD = 0.662), and after education decreased to 1.74 (SD = 0.810), with a p-value of 0.000 (p