Relationship with Compliance with Blood Supplementing Tablet Consumption with The Incident of Anemia in Adolescent Girls

Abstract

Background: Iron deficiency can cause anemia. Anemia is a global public health problem that most often occurs in adolescent girls and the most common cause is iron deficiency. The effects of anemia seen in teenagers are stunted growth, the body is easily infected, decreased body fitness, decreased enthusiasm for learning, and decreased achievement. The Ministry of Health explained that young women obtain iron through animal protein such as liver, fish and meat because young women cannot access these foods so they need additional intake of the substance obtained through Fe tablets. The World Health Organization (WHO) in the world prevalence of anemia in 2015 shows that the prevalence of anemia in the world is around 40%-88%, in Southeast Asia 25%-40% of young women experience mild and severe anemia. The population of teenagers (10-19 years) in Indonesia is 26.2%, consisting of 50.9% men and 49.1% women. The aim of the research was to determine the relationship between adherence to consuming blood supplement tablets and the incidence of anemia in young women in the study program. Nutrition Science at STIKes Baiturrahim.

Method: This research is a quantitative research with a cross sectional study design. This research was conducted to see the relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable at the same time, this research involved 67 respondents.

Result: Based on the research results, results were obtained (p – value 0.005 < 0.05).

Conclusion: It can be concluded that there is connection Compliance with blood supplement tablet consumption and the incidence of anemia in young women at STIKes Baiturrahim.