UPAYA PENINGKATAN KESADARAN REMAJA TENTANG GIZI REMAJA UNTUK MENCEGAH ANEMIA REMAJA

Abstrak

Adolescent development is as complicated as children, because there are complex interactions between them, namely puberty, maturity, neurocognition, and social roles. Apart from that, the role of living conditions and the environment, especially at home, is the main contributor to growth is nutrition. Therefore, nutritional needs need to be prioritized because young women are prospective mothers who will give birth to the nation's next generation. The incidence of anemia in teenagers in the Brebes Regency area is still quite high, education for teenagers is still very limited only from local health center activities and is not carried out routinely. PKM activities were carried out with the aim of identifying adolescent nutrition as well as increasing adolescent knowledge about nutrition which was carried out at Bulakamba Vocational School, Brebes Regency on February 14 2022, the number of participants taking part in PKM activities was 68 female students. The results of PKM activities including Hb examination showed that 50 female students had normal status and 18 female students had anemia status, 68 teenagers had normal nutritional status, 57 female students, 5 female students were fat and 6 students were thin, there was an increase in knowledge from health education activities, namely from 23% (16 people ) good knowledge, 50% (34 people) have sufficient knowledge and 27% (18 people) have poor knowledge, 56 people (83%) have good knowledge and 12 people (17%) have sufficient knowledge.