Open Journal of Nursing, 2020, 10, 239-251 https://www.scirp.org/journal/ojn ISSN Online: 2162-5344 ISSN Print: 2162-5336 DOI: 10.4236/ojn.2020.103016 Mar. 24, 2020 239 Open Journal of Nursing The Prevalence and Determinants of Stunting among Children 6 - 59 Months of Age in One of the Sub-Counties in the Rwenzori Sub-Region, Western Uganda Enos Mirembe Masereka 1,2,3* , Arthur Kiconco 3 , Edson Katsomyo 2 , Clement Munguiko 2,4 1 Department of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Medicine, Kabale University, Kabale, Uganda 2 Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Mountains of the Moon University, Fort Portal, Uganda 3 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda 4 Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, Soroti University, Soroti, Uganda Abstract Introduction: Despite being referred to as one of the country’s “food baskets”, 41% of children, 6 - 59 months of age in the Rwenzori sub-region, Western Uganda are stunted. Stunting is a form of chronic malnutrition in which children are short for their age. In this study, we established the preva- lence and determinants of stunting in one of the sub-counties in this region. Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted in one of the sub-counties in the Rwenzori sub-region, Western Uganda from May 26 th to June 26 th , 2018. A total of 372 mothers and their children were recruited using systematic sampling. Data was collected using a questionnaire. Stunting was determined by taking child’s height or length and comparing it with child’s age. A child whose height or length for age index was less than −2 Standard Deviations (SD) was considered stunted. We used descriptive statis- tics to understand characteristics of mothers and multivariable logistic re- gression model to obtain the determinants of stunting. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 20. Results: A total of 372 mothers and their children were included in this study; majority, 307 (83.0%) of the children were 6 - 24 months old and nearly half, 167 (44.9%) were stunted. We found that reserv- ing food stock for use in the dry season (aOR = 0.23, CI = 0.08 - 0.62, p = 0.004), deworming children (aOR = 0.32, CI = 0.18 - 0.54, p = 0.001) and the family earning at least 10,000 Ushs (2.7USD) at the end of the month (aOR = 0.36, CI = 0.22 - 0.58, P = 0.001) were associated with no stunting. Conclu- sions: We found a high prevalence of stunting among children 6 - 59 months How to cite this paper: Masereka, E.M., Kiconco, A., Katsomyo, E. and Munguiko, C. (2020) The Prevalence and Determinants of Stunting among Children 6 - 59 Months of Age in One of the Sub-Counties in the Rwenzori Sub-Region, Western Uganda. Open Journal of Nursing, 10, 239-251. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojn.2020.103016 Received: February 14, 2020 Accepted: March 21, 2020 Published: March 24, 2020 Copyright © 2020 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access