The Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Incidence of Anemia among Adolescent Girls in East Lombok, Indonesia

Qonita Rachmah; Badra Aufa; Ari Nurfikri; Supriadi; Nia Murniati; Elsa Roselina; Nur Fadilah Dewi

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The Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Incidence of Anemia among Adolescent Girls in East Lombok, Indonesia

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Qonita Rachmah¹^{, 2}, Badra Aufa³^{, *}, Ari Nurfikri³, Supriadi¹^{, 2}^{, 3}, Nia Murniati³, Elsa Roselina³, Nur Fadilah Dewi³

¹School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

²Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia

³Applied Health Science Program, Vocational Education Program, Universitas Indonesia, Depok City, Indonesia

^*Corresponding author. Email: badra@vokasi.ui.ac.id

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Badra Aufa

Available Online 31 October 2023.

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Keywords: anemia; adolescent girls; nutritional status
Abstract: Anemia in adolescent girls could bring several health consequences and its prevalence was high, thus, remains a public health significance. Nutritional status is one of important factor in anemia development. This study aims to observe a correlation between age and nutritional status with incidence of anemia among adolescent girls. This study used cross-sectional design with total sample of purposively selected 30 adolescent girls aged 15-18 years. Nutritional status data was collected using direct measurement height and weight then calculate Body-Mass-Index (BMI) – Age Z-score (BAZ), while anemia defined by Hemoglobin (Hb) value. Normality test using Kolmogorov-Smirnov was done before inferential analysis. To assess relationship between variables, Pearson correlation analysis was performed. Our study found mean of BMI among adolescents’ group was 20.5 kg/m² ± 2.8, mean BAZ -0.17 ± 0.95, while mean of Hb was 14.5 ± 1.1. Mean of BMI, BAZ and Hb level were considered in normal range. Based on BAZ category, mean of Hb in normal nutritional status was 14.53 while mean of Hb in overweight girls was 14.55. Statistical analysis could not find any significant correlation between age and anemia (p = 1.000), also between BAZ and anemia (p = 0.370). Although there was no correlation, we found a tendency of slightly higher Hb in overweight adolescents. An optimal effort from related stakeholders is needed to increase adolescent girls’ nutrition knowledge and practice in optimizing their nutritional status to prevent anaemia by utilizing various media and technology considering the massive use of technology by adolescents.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Vocational Education Applied Science and Technology (ICVEAST 2023)
Series: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date: 31 October 2023
ISBN: 978-2-38476-132-6
ISSN: 2352-5398
DOI: 10.2991/978-2-38476-132-6_19 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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