FACTORS OF IRON DEFICIENCY ON PREGNANT WOMAN IN GANDUS PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER WORKING AREA IN PALEMBANG

Abstract

Background: Iron deficiency anemia is the common and wide problem happens in nutritional disorders field around the world. Pregnant woman is a susceptible group for iron deficiency anemia. Result of Basic Health Research year 2013 , anemia in pregnant woman are 37,1% and 40,1%. The threshold limit of pregnancy anemia is under 11 gr/dl. The City Health Office of Palembang stated that every year, anemia cases in pregnant woman increased, 2,99% (2012), 3,00% (2013), and increased significantly on 2014, 8,69%. The objective of this study is analyse determinants of iron deficiency on pregnant woman

Method: This research using cross sectional study. The population is all pregnant woman in Gandus Public Health Center. This research used 81 people as samples. The instruments used are questioners. Data analysis are univariat and bivariat using chi-square statistic test.

Results: Based on the result of bivariat test, known that there are four independent variables relate to iron deficiency happens to pregnant woman which are, knowledge (p-value=0,023), age of pregnancy (p-value=0,044), Fe tablets consumption (p-value=0,049), and iron intake (p-value=0,048). Meanwhile, there are no relation between antenatal care visit (p-value=0,980), and health workers’ role (p-value=0,560) not related iron deficiency to pregnant woman.

Conclusion: This research suggested that health workers expected to do educational events to pregnant woman during the Antenatal Care visit to decrease the rate of iron deficiency.

Keywords: Iron Deficiency, Pregnant Woman, Iron Intake

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26553/jikm.2016.7.1.42-47