The Correlation Between Family Income and Mom’s Education with Anemia
- DOI
- 10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.022How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- family income, mom’s education, anemia
- Abstract
Puberty is a transition period between childhood and adulthood where growth spurt occurs, and people in this period relatively have not reached the stage of mental and social maturity so they must face conflicting emotional and social pressures. According to WHO, adolescents are when children reach the age of 10-18 years. In adolescence there is one of the problems that mostly appears, that is anemia. Anemia in young women is still a public health problem if the prevalence is more than 15%.In general, the high prevalence of iron nutrition anemia is caused by several factors: chronic blood loss, inadequate iron intake, inadequate absorption, and increased need for iron. Based on preliminary studies obtained from interviews with 25 female midwifery study program students of Harapan Bangsa University Purwokerto, the result showed that 45% of students experienced severe anemia, 40% had moderate anemia, and 15% had mild anemia. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors associated with the incidence of anemia in adolescents. The type of this research was correlation analytic research design with cross-sectional approach. Samples were taken using simple random sampling. The results showed that there was a correlation between family income and mom’s education with anemia in adolescents.
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Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Rosi Kurnia Sugiharti AU - Etika Dewi Cahyaningrum PY - 2020 DA - 2020/02/10 TI - The Correlation Between Family Income and Mom’s Education with Anemia BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Community Health (ICCH 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 94 EP - 96 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.022 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.022 ID - Sugiharti2020 ER -