Stunting is a condition that a person’s height is shorter than the height of other people in general. Adverse effects that can be caused by short-term stunting such as impaired brain development, intelligence, impaired physical growth and metabolic disorders in the body. This type of research is a quasi-experimental design with a nonequivalent control group design. The population is all stunting toddlers in Bandengan Village. A sample of 79 children under the age of 5 years 39 children as the case group and 40 children as the control group were given PMT 4 times a week for 1 month, the results of the study There were differences in height in the treatment group before and after treatment with ap value of 0.001, and there was a difference in height in the control group before and after treatment with ap value of 0.0001. However, in the different test between the two groups there was no difference in growth with ap value of 0.258. It is recommended that further research monitor other factors that affect stunting.
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