Abstract

Anemia iron deficiency in adolescent girls have an impact to decrease of productivity work and academic ability in school and in long term can lead to complications in pregnancy and childbirth, therefore it is necessary prevention and control of anemia with the provision of iron. The purpose of this research was to determine the intake of iron supplementation and the effectiveness of giving iron oral supplementation to increase levels of adolescent girls hemoglobin. This is an intervensional research with one group pretest posttest design. The Sample in this research is adolescent girls, with total sample 31 respondents. The responden received iron supplementation every Friday, for one month through “Gerakan Jumat Pintar”. The intake nutritional data was obtained from food record 3 days. Statisticaly analysis in used is wilcoxon. The result indicated that anemia iron deficiency in adolescent girls is decrease from 20,0% to 10,8%. Adolescent girls suffer from moderate anemia are decrease from 27.7% to 20.0%. Whereas adolescent girls who did not suffer from anemia experienced an increase from 52,3% to 69,2%. The result of this research concluded that iron supplementation among adolescent girl is the effectiveness of giving iron oral supplementation through “Gerakan Jumat Pintar” to hemoglobin that is increase 1,01 gr/dl.

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