The association between adolescent girls’ elevated hemoglobin levels and blood supplement tablets consumption

Background: Anemia is one of the most common diseases affecting adolescent, especially girls. The impact of anemia in adolescent is not only felt now but will also have an impact during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. 
Purpose: The aims of the research was to determine the relationship between consumption iron supplement tablets 12 tablets and hemoglobin levels in anemic girls.
Method: The design of this study was quantitative pre-experiment using a one group pretest-posttest design approach. This research was conducted on 81 anemic girls in class XI aged 15-17 years at the Mambausholihin Islamic Boarding school, Gresik Regency, the sampling technique used was total sample, the independent variable in this study was blood supplement tablets, and the dependent variable in this study was hemoglobin levels.
Result: The results of this study were that there was a relationship between giving blood supplement tablets 12 tablets and hemoglobin levels in anemic girls. Based on the results of the chi-square statistical test, the value of p = 0.000 < 0.05.
Conclusion: These data showed that there was a relationship between consumption iron supplement tablets 12 tablets and hemoglobin levels in anemic girls.