HUBUNGAN KEBIASAAN MAKAN PAGI DENGAN KEJADIAN ANEMIA PADA REMAJA PUTRI DI SMA AL HIKMAH 2 BENDA SIRAMPOG BREBES

Abstract

Anemia is a global public health problem in developing and developed countries with its major consequences for human health and the economic and national development. Anemia can occur at all stages of the life cycle, but it is more prevalent in pregnant women and children. Anemia in children due to lack of nutritional diet has bad impacts on their health, growth, and immune systems. The main causes of nutritional anemia are the insufficient iron ingestion, low iron absorption, and diet which mainly consists of rice and less diverse menu. Breakfast habits fall into one of the thirteen basic messages of balanced nutrition. The benefit of having breakfast for school children is that it can improve their concentration to study and to understand their lessons, resulting in improvement of their learning achievement. Besides that, breakfast plays some important roles in fulfilling the balanced nutrition in children. The purpose of this study was to find out the relationship between breakfast habits and anemia incidence among students of SD Negeri 3 Manado. This was an analytical cross-sectional study. The results showed that of 83 students, 58 students (69.9%) had habits of having breakfast and 74 students (89.2%) were not anemic. Analytical results obtained P-value = 0.019 (≤ 0.050). Conclusion: there was a significant relation between breakfast habits and anemia incidence among the students of SD Negeri 3 Manado. Key words: breakfast habits, children, anemia Abstrak: