<![CDATA[Background: Stunting is a global nutritional problem in developing countries which ischaracterized by chronic shorter body height compared to age. One of the causes ofstunting is early marriage. Early marriage is marriage to teenagers under 20 years of agewhich is thought to be one of the causes of stunting in children. Objective: To find out therelationship between the history of early marriage and the incidence of stunting in the UPTarea of Sungai Tabuk 2 Community Health Center, Banjar Regency. Method: Quantitativeanalytical observational research with a cross sectional design. The sample in the researchwas 30 toddlers aged 2-5 years. Samples were taken using accidental sampling technique.Data collection uses questionnaires and anthropometric measurements. Data analysisused univariate and bivariate Chi Square tests. Results: The majority of mothers underfive's occupation are not working as many as 25 people (83.3%), the education of mothersunder five has completed elementary school as many as 14 people (14.7%), the gender oftoddlers is mostly male as many as 17 people (56.7%) and age toddlers 36-48 years old 13people (43.3%). There were 18 toddlers who experienced stunting (60%) and 17 people(56.7%) had a mother's history of early marriage. The results of the correlation analysisshow that there is a relationship between a history of early marriage and the incidence ofstunting in toddlers (p-value = 0.013 < α 0.05) with an OR value of 10.500. There is arelationship between a history of early marriage and the incidence of stunting in toddlers.Conclusion: Pregnant women should carry out pregnancy checks at least 6 times tomonitor the baby's development. Community health centers and health institutions canprovide education about safe marriage ages for women and education about reproductivehealth for teenagers.]]>
