Innovative Midwifery Practices: Leveraging Mobile Health for Early Stunting Risk Assessment

Abstract

The prevalence of stunting in Indonesia is high based on the Global Nutrition Report and World Health Organization (WHO) studies. Midwives detect many risk factors for stunting because they are the closest health service providers in the community, so it is necessary to implement digital health technology towards the Industrial Revolution 5.0. Android-based application development is one option for providing effective and efficient public health services. This research aims to determine the effect of mobile health applications on midwives' skills in the early detection of stunting risk factors. This study uses pre-experimental research methods in one group pre-test and post-test design. The research sample of 100 respondents was taken from the population of independent practicing midwives in the East Jakarta area using a purposive sampling technique. The intervention uses a mobile health application. It is an information menu about stunting and stunting risk factor screening menu. The data in this study were obtained from questionnaires during the pre-test and post-test of midwife skills in early detection of risk factors for stunting. Statistical test of early detection skills for stunting risk factors using the Wilcoxon test. Statistical test results show a significant increase in scores before and after using the application. The average score before using the application was 52.4 to 54.2 after using the application. Implementing the mobile health application can improve midwives' skills in detecting risk factors for stunting based on the Wilcoxon test with p = 0.001. This research then found that the use of mobile health applications has an impact on increasing midwives' skills in the early detection of stunting risk factors. However, in adopting this solution, you must consider the readiness of the digital ecosystem and broader system requirements.