Increasing weight in children aged 1-2 years with complementary foods for breast milk moringa cassava fish meatballs and green bean biscuits in Bukti Village

<p><strong><em>Background:</em></strong><em> The prevalence of stunting in Indonesian children has been high for the past decade at 37%. Bukti Village that there are nutritional problems in children aged 1-2 years out of 80 children, there are 54 children (66.25%) and the incidence of stunting is 8 children (10%). Bukti Village has the advantage of food sources in the form of fish, cassava, moringa and mung beans. Intervention to prevent stunting by increasing children's weight through moringa cassava fish balls and mung bean biscuits.</em><em></em></p><p><strong><em>Objectives:</em></strong><em> Increase weight in children aged 1-2 years with moringa cassava fish balls and mung bean biscuits.</em></p><p><strong><em>Methods:</em></strong><em> The design used in this study is a mix method where in this study quantitative data is found and described qualitatively. The quantitative research design used is a pretest-posttest design. This study used a sample of 54 children aged 1-2 years in Bukti Village, the sampling technique used purposive sampling with the inclusion criteria of children who were malnourished and the exclusion criteria of children with diarrhea and worms. Bivariate analysis using Kruskal Wallis, while qualitative data used descriptive analysis on phenomenology with semistructure interview techniques until the sample was saturated. </em></p><p><strong><em>Results:</em></strong><em> The results of the study showed that ini 3 intervention groups and 1 control groups there was weight gain after being given Moringa Cassava Fish Balls and mung bean biscuits. Intervention group 1 (giving meatballs) value of p= 0.001, intervention group 2 (giving biscuits) value of p= 0.003 and intervention group 3 (giving meatballs and biscuits) value of p= 0.000. The control group of this study was given additional food in the form of biscuits from the Kubutambahan 1 Health Center value of p= 0.658.</em></p><p><strong><em>Conclusions:</em></strong><em> There was an increase in weight in children aged 1-2 years after being given cassava fish meatballs, moringa and mung bean biscuits</em>.<em></em></p>