HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN IBU HAMIL DENGAN KEPATUHAN MENGKONSUMSI TABLET ZAT BESI (FE) DI PUSKESMAS PEMBINA PALEMBANG 2019

Abstract

Iron (Fe) tablet are one of the important element in the formation of red blood cells. This study aims to determine the correlation of the maternity’s knowledge with compliance to consume iron tablet (Fe) at the Pembina Public Health Center in Palembang 2019. Efforts to overcome the problem of iron deficiency anemia of  maternity. The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia since 1970 has implemented an iron tablet program ( Fe) of maternity in Public Health Center and United ministerial Post. The design of this research is analytic survey with cross sectional approach which is a research design by measuring or observing simultaneously between independent and dependent variables. From 27 respondents who were well informed obtained 22 respondents (81.5%) who obey to consume iron tablets (Fe) and 5 respondents (18.5%) who disobey to consume iron tablet (Fe). Whereas maternity with insufficient knowledge obtained 8 respondents consist of 2 respondents (25.0%) who comply to consume iron tablet (Fe) and 6 respondents (75.0%) who did not comply to consume iron tablets (Fe). From the Chi-Square test results obtained ρ value = 0.006 means < α 0,05. This case shows that there is a relationship between the maternity’s knowledge with complience to consume iron tablet (Fe) at the Public Health Center of Pembina Palembang in 2019. So that the hypothesis states that there is a significant relationship between the maternity’s knowledge with obedience to consume iron tablet at the Public Health Center of Pembina Palembang in 2019. There is a suggestion obtained in this study that knowledge of iron tablet is very important for maternity so that they can reach it from counseling, United ministerial Post, social media and others.