Comparison of the Effectiveness of Portable and Manual Digital Anthropometrics in Early Detection of Stunting in Children Literature Review

Child growth is one of the most important indicators of public health and welfare. One of the serious challenges faced in child growth and development is stunting. However, tools for measuring stunting have weaknesses in accuracy, which are influenced by errors during measurement, age determination, accuracy of cadres, and non-standard anthropometric measuring instruments. For this reason, it is necessary to design a more practical anthropometric detection tool for child nutritional status for health practitioners and cadres, thereby reducing the risk of diagnostic malpractice due to human error. This study aims to identify stunting detection programs. This study employed a literature review method compiled based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). Article searches were conducted on six databases, namely PubMed, Scopus, ProQuest, Medline, ScienceDirect, and other sources. The inclusion criteria for this study were articles published from 2018 to 2023 by populations worldwide. The quality assessment of studies in this research used the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Critical Appraisal. The results of a study of eight articles obtained a digital tool for detecting stunted children, but one study demonstrated that the stunting detection tool is appropriate, portable, easy to use, and requires a short operating time