Abstract:
Survey of Dinas Kesehatan Kota Blitar in 2002 found that the prevalence of anemic teen with was
20.5%. This situation aligned the problems that often occur in adolescents are obesity and anemia. An
effort to decrease the prevalence of anemic teen conducted a pilot award projects of iron
supplementation (Fe) since 2010, but had never an evaluation. Pilot project conducted in all female
students in the junior school Blitar, which public junior school of 4th Blitar has implemented since
2010. The purpose was to describe the hemoglobin level of teen who consumed iron supplementation
(Fe). Design used descriptive, research instruments was Hb test using Sahli’s method. The population
sizes of teen at Public Junior School 4th of Blitar were 438 teens and sample sizes were 65 teens
selected used proportional stratified random sampling based classed. The sample criteria was taking
iron supplement (Fe) more than 6 months routinely one tablet a week at school and not menstruating
when measured hemoglobin. Data collected in June 2014. Results: Teens who consumed iron
supplement tablet for less than 1 year as many as 22 teens, 1-2 years as many as 24 teens, and more
than 2 years as many as 19 teens. The level of hemoglobin of teen who consumed iron
supplementation (Fe) were low category (less than 12 g/dL) as much as 14% (9 teens), normal
category (12.01 – 15.0 g/dL) as much as 77% (50 teens), and high category (more than 15.01 g/dL) as
much as 9% (6 teens).
