Anticipate Stunting by Assisting Teenage Girls with Focus Group Discussion Method at Islamic Boarding Schools, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Abstract

Nutritional problems experienced by adolescents include anaemia, malnutrition, and obesity. Teenage girls who live in Al Fadhilah Islamic boarding schools have poor eating patterns, both in quality and quantity. This community service activity was carried out to anticipate stunting incidents through mentoring teenage girls at Islamic boarding schools. Activities include filling out the knowledge questionnaires related to stunting, the measurements of anthropometric, blood pressure, and haemoglobin levels, and the focus group discussion with the theme of the link between stunting and nutritional status, including hypertension and anaemia, as a form of assistance to participants in community service activities. A focus group discussion was held one time, only at the time of initial data collection. The activity results reported that most teenage girls had normal nutritional status based on anthropometry, were not stunted, did not have hypertension, and did not have anaemia. Community service activities in the form of accompanying teenage girls at Islamic boarding schools have not been able to improve the nutritional status of teenage girls significantly because the assistance efforts have not been carried out optimally, which is only done once at the beginning of the activity in the form of a focus group discussion so that it has not been able to change the behaviour of teenage girls.