| Summary: | ABSTRACT
The prevalence of stunted in Konda sub district, Kendari regency, Southeast Sulawesi Province is still sufficiently high (68.5%). One of the causes is the low iodine consumption. This study was purposed to know the influence of iodine capsule supplementation on physical growth and intelligence of stunted aged 10-14 years old.
This was a randomized placebo controlled trial. Subjects were 39 stunted aged 10 - 14 years old. The supplementation was done once with the single blind method. The anthropometries measurement for height, intellectual intelligence (IQ), and emotional intelligence (EQ) were done twice, while urine iodine was done once in the beginning of the research.
It was revealed that the target groups, stunted, who got 200 mg iodine supplementation, performed the higher increase of the z-score value than that of the placebo supplementation. There were statistically significant differences of physical growth (p0.05), but there were significant increases of EQ (p = 0.01). Itwas also concluded that the supplementation of 200 mg iodine capsule is able to increase physical growth. The supplementation does not influence the increasing of IQ but do influence the emotional intelligence (EQ) of stunted aged 10-14 years old.
Keywords: supplementation-iodine-growth -intelligence.
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