The Effectiveness Of Iron Supplementation With Green Bean Source On Enhancement Of Hemoglobin Levels In Adolescent

Abstract

Background. The impact of anemia on adolescent girls is higher than that of boys. Anemia experienced by young women will have a more serious impact because young women are prospective mothers who will become pregnant and give birth to a baby, complications in pregnancy and childbirth, thereby increasing the risk of death, premature delivery, low birth weight (LBW) and perinatal mortality. The prevalence of anemia in adolescents is 43% with a poor diet of 79.2%. One of the causes of low levels of hemoglobin in the blood is inadequate intake of nutrients. Young women in Indonesia still have the view that a thin body image is considered beautiful, thus affecting their diet only given blood-enhancing tablets. After 14 days, the Hb levels were measured again for each group. The results showed that the increase in Hb in the intervention group was higher than the control group, where the difference in Hb levels in the intervention group respondents was -2.7200 while in the control group it was - 1.1200 with a P-value of 0.0001. The conclusion is that there is a more effective effect of giving blood-enhancing tablets with the administration of mung bean juice simultaneously in the intervention group, compared to giving blood-enhancing tablets alone on the increase in Hb levels. Suggestions for increasing knowledge through counseling and Hb examination in adolescents must be carried out continuously as an effort to detect anemia in adolescent girls early.