Author(s)

Dwi Oktari Erfanti^*, Djatnika Setiabudi, Kusnandi Rusmil

Department of Child health, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran-Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychosocial dysfunction of adolescents with stunted and normal height. This was a cross-sectional study using pediatric symptom checklist-17 (PSC-17), subjected to adolescents (age: 11 to 14 years) in Suburban, West Java Indonesia. Two variables of the subjects’ characteristics (sex and body height) were included in the multivariate analysis because the p was <0.25 (p = 0.22, p = 0.07). It was found that 53 subjects had psychosocial dysfunction (25 stunted, 4 severely stunted, and 24 normal heights) with significant comparing proportion between severely stunted and normal height (p = 0.04). In severely stunted adolescents, the risk of psychosocial dysfunction is 6.33 more than in normal stature group. Examination was done on those 53 adolescents resulted in several psychosocial disorders: 12 psychosocially low self-esteem, 12 family problems, and others ranging from other several aspect problems. Forty-one from the 53 adolescents were with psychopathology symptoms. There was psychosocial dysfunction just in adolescents with severely stunted.

Psychosocial Dysfunction, Stunted, PSC-17

Erfanti, D. , Setiabudi, D. and Rusmil, K. (2016) The Relationship of Psychosocial Dysfunction and Stunting of Adolescents in Suburban, Indonesia. Open Journal of Medical Psychology, 5, 57-65. doi: 10.4236/ojmp.2016.54007.