ASTU (Acupressure Stunting) : Digitalization of Acupressure Education as an Effort to Prevent Stunting in Toddlers

Abstract

According to the Global Nutrition Report 2018 there are 150.8 million (22.2%) children under five in the world are stunting, 55% from Asia. Indonesia ranks 17^th out of 117 countries with a stunting prevalence of 21.6% in 2022. Although, an inovation is still needed to solve the existing cases and prevent the new cases. The inovation is "ASTU (Acupressure Stunting): as the Digitization of Acupressure Education as an Effort to Prevent Stunting in Toddlers" which provides information about stunting and information about conventional efforts to prevent stunting in toddlers by increase appetite through complementary therapy with acupressure techniques. ASTU provides information about acupressure stunting, as well as providing acupressure practice videos. Identification of 25 respondents’s level of knowledge about stunting and acupressure before and after using the ASTU Application was carried out by providing questions through google form. The results of obtaining pre-test scores from 25 respondents, the average is 46.8 and after being given a pre-test, respondents were given an ASTU application to understand stunting and acupressure. Then respondents given a posttest and the average is 89.6. The paired T-test shows that there is a significant difference between respondents' knowledge levels before and after using the application. The mean value of-42,800 indicates that there is a trend of increasing knowledge. The average is 4.04. So, it can be concluded that the ASTU application is feasible received by the public to be used as one of the educational applications in increasing the appetite of toddlers to prevent the stunting.