Effectiveness of Akper Student Assistance to Mothers whose Children are Stunting

Cases Stunting in children can be a predictor the low quality of country's human resources. The state stunting causes poor cognitive abilities, productivity, and increased risk disease resulting long-term losses for Indonesian economy. Nutrition problems, especially infants, inhibit child's development, with negative impacts that will last next life such as intellectual decline, susceptibility to non-communicable diseases, decreased productivity cause poverty giving birth babies weight. Knowing effectiveness assistance Akper students mothers who have Height / Length Child Body. This research is quasi-experimental quantitative Pre Post Test Control Group design, where are assisted by acper providing health education 6 properly taking medicine, immunization, breastfeeding Exclusive, MP-ASI, Nursing Mothers Benefits Zynk Fe. After mentoring, re-evaluation body length height was then compared control group. Analysis different tests using Mann Whitney Test.The results statistical analysis treatment group accompanied student akper addition child obtained p = 0,000 (P0.05), (P0.05). Although equally significant changes occur height, if examined based on nutritional status (TB Age) only its from very short short. Adds because it still involved period growth development but not maximal carried out. means condition. However, group, normal status, free status. While Whytney's test meaning whose effectively increases child.