The Effect of Edutainment Usage on Improving Knowledge, Attitudes, Balanced Nutrition Fulfilling Behavior in the Prevention of Anemia and Changes in Hemoglobin Levels in Adolescent Girl (Case Study Of SMPN 4 Banjarbaru)

The prevalence of anemia in adolescent in Indonesia is high enough that 21, 7% with anemia patient aged 5–14 year equal to 26, 4% and 18, 4% patient aged 15–24 year. Banjarabaru is the highest incidence of anemia in adolescents in South Kalimantan Province of 58.75%. Research Objectives is to analyze the effect of edutainment use on the improvement of knowledge, attitudes, behavior of balanced nutrition fulfillment in prevention of anemia and change of hemoglobin level in female adolescent. This research used Quasi Experiment design with pre-test and post-test group design approach. The number of samples of 90 young women taken with purposive sampling technique. The data obtained were then analyzed using Paired T-Test and Wilcoxon statistical tests for paired differential test, and Anova and Kruskall Wallis tests for unpaired test, followed by Post Hoc test for Anova test and Mann Whitney test for Kruskall Wallis test. The results of statistical analysis show that overall p value obtained <0.005 indicates that edutainment booklet and video edutainment have different effects before and after intervention to increase knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of balanced nutrition in prevention of anemia and changes in hemoglobin levels in adolescent girls.