Effectiveness of Drumstick Leaves Soup on Haemoglobin Level Among the Adolescent Girls in Selected Pu Colleges in Bangalore

Abstract

In Asia India contributed 80% of the antenatal and postnatal mothers died due to an anemia.3 According to the reports of NFHS-3 and the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau Survey (NNMBS) over 55% of adolescent girls were having anemia that is alarmingly high. The goal of present study is to assess the effectiveness of drumstick leaves soup on hemoglobin levels among the adolescent girls in selected PU college at Bangalore, Karnataka.The true experimental design was adopted for the study. Adolescent girls with frank anemia and border line anemia who are studying in Gangothri PU college of students has taken as the experimental group and as the control group. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used to select the 60 adolescent girls with frank anemia and border line anemia (30 in experimental group and 30 in control group. Regarding effectiveness of drumstick leaves soup, the overall mean score of experimental groups in the pre-test was 11.90 and 14.06 in the post test with enhancement of 2.16 and it was significant at P<0.001% level and the overall mean score of control group in the pre-test was 11.73 and 11.55 in the post with mild enhancement of 0.18 and it was significant at P<0.001% level. Analysis of socio-demographic variables showed that there is no significant association at 5% level (P>0.05) both in experimental group and control group. The findings of this study support the need for nurses to conduct more experiment to increase the hemoglobin level of adolescent girls in selected college at Bangalore district. And had a remarkable increase in hemoglobin level of adolescent girls when compared to their pre-test, prior to the administration of the drumstick leaves soup. And this study shows that the hemoglobin levels of the adolescent girls have been improved in experimental group then the control group after administering the drumstick leaves soup hence the drumstick leaves soup is effective on increasing hemoglobin levels. Thus, the student researcher recommends further studies in these areas to improve the hemoglobin level of adolescent girls.