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Stunting merupakan masalah kurang gizi kronis disebabkan oleh kurangnya asupan gizi, kondisi tersebut mengakibatkan tinggi badan anak cenderung pendek daripada usianya. Pada wilayah kerja puskesmas tanjung pati kejadian stunting cukup tinggi. Salah satu cara memenuhi asupan gizi pada balita yaitu dengan makanan tambahan seperti cookies daun kelor. Kandungan gizi daun kelor bermanfaat untuk mengatasi masalah malnutrisi. Tujuan Penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui Pengaruh Pemberian Cookies Daun Kelor (moringa oleifera) Terhadap Berat Badan Pada Balita Usia 24-59 Bulan Yang Mengalami Stunting. Desain penelitian ini menggunakan One group Pretest and Postest desain, intervensi diberikan selama 7 hari. Populasi penelitian ini adalah anak yang mengalami stunting di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Tanjung Pati sebanyak 192 balita. Teknik pengambilan sampel yaitu purposive sampling. Pada penelitian ini jumlah sampelnya 10 balita. Analisa univariat dilakukan uji Shapiro wilk dan hasil hipotesa penelitian menggunakan uji t test. Hasil analisa univariat menunjukkan bahwa rata-rata berat badan sebelum dilakukan intervensi adalah 11,68 dan rata-rata berat badan setelah dilakukan intervensi adalah 12,36. Hasil univariat menunjukkan terdapat perbedaan rata-rata berat badan sebelum dan sesudah pemberian cookies daun kelor di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Tanjung Pati Kabupaten Lima Puluh Kota Tahun 2022 (p = 0,014). Hasil Penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh pemberian cookies daun kelor (moringa oleifera) terhadap berat badan balita. Oleh karena itu disarankan kepada ibu balita memanfaatkan cookies daun kelor sebagai makanan tambahan yang terbukti berpengaruh signifikan terhadap peningkatan berat badan balita.

Stunting is a chronic malnutrition problem caused by lack of nutritional intake, this condition causes children's height to tend to be shorter than their age. In the working area of the Tanjung Pati Public Health Center, the incidence of stunting is quite high. One way to meet the nutritional intake of toddlers is with additional food such as Moringa leaf cookies. The nutritional content of Moringa leaves is useful for overcoming the problem of malnutrition. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of giving Moringa leaf cookies (moringa oleifera) on body weight in toddlers aged 24-59 months who experience stunting. The design of this study used the One group Pretest and Posttest design, the intervention was given for 7 days. The population of this study were children who experienced stunting in the Tanjung Pati Health Center working area as many as 192 toddlers. The sampling technique is purposive sampling. In this study, the number of samples was 10 children under five. The univariate analysis was carried out by the Shapiro Wilk test and the results of the research hypothesis using the t test. The results of the univariate analysis showed that the average body weight before the intervention was 11.68 and the average body weight after the intervention was 12.36. Univariate results showed that there was a difference in average body weight before and after administration of Moringa leaf cookies in the Tanjung Pati Health Center Working Area, Lima Puluh Kota Regency in 2022 (p = 0.014). The results of the study can be concluded that there is an effect of giving Moringa leaf cookies (moringa oleifera) on toddler body weight. Therefore, it is recommended viii for mothers of toddlers to use Moringa leaf cookies as additional food which has been shown to have a significant effect on increasing toddler body weight.