Associated Factors of Anemia Incidences in Adolescent Girls at Guntung Manggis Public Health Center Working Area Banjarbaru City

The Indonesian government intensifies the prevention and control of anemia in adolescent girls and women of reproductive age by prioritizing the provision of iron folic acid (IFA) at schools. The highest anemia prevalence in Kalimantan Selatan Indonesia is in Banjarbaru City, the highest coverage of IFA administration in Guntung Manggis Public Health Center, many factors can cause anemia in adolescent girls. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between compliance of IFA consumption, eating behavior, parental education, parental occupation, parental income, and counseling information from public health care provider with the incidence of anemia in an adolescent girl. This study used an observational analytic method with a cross-sectional approach. The population of this study is all adolescent girls in the junior high school research location. The sample was 94 respondents taken by proportional stratified random sampling. Data were analyzed based on the chi-square and logistic regression test. The chi-square test showed there was no relationship (p>0, 05) between compliance of IFA consumption, eating behavior, parental education, parental occupation, parental income with the incidence of anemia in adolescent girls, while there was a relationship (p<0, 05) between counseling information from public health care provider with the incidence of anemia in adolescent girls. Logistic regression test showed that the biggest variable related to the incidence of anemia in adolescent girls is counseling information from public health care provider (p<0, 05).