Authors: Sri Wayanti1, Tanty Wulan Dari2
1Midwifery Department, Health Polytechnic of Ministry of Health in Surabaya, Indonesia
2Midwifery Department, Health Polytechnic of Ministry of Health in Surabaya, Indonesia
Email: medikes@gmail.com
Abstract
Hemoglobin is a protein molecule in erythrocyte that has function as oxygen transport media from lungs to all of the body tissues and carries carbon dioxide from body tissues to the lungs. However, it depends on the consumption of iron supplementation, bone marrow problems, chronic bleeding, and malnutrition. Consuming iron tablets regularly is very important, particularly for pregnant women in order to prevent anemia. Moreover, this study aimed at determining the correlation between the consumption of iron tablets and hemoglobin on third trimester of pregnant women in DKT hospital, Sidoarjo, East Java-Indonesia. The research was a correlational research that was conducted in March by utilizing quota sampling technique to the third trimester of pregnant women and the respondents were 48 pregnant women. This research utilized Spearman Rho test and it obtained a value of 0.010 ρ which was less than α = 0.05. Therefore, there was a correlation between the consumption of iron tablets and hemoglobin. The conclusion of this research was the consumption of iron tablets correlated with hemoglobin. In addition, it was much better for pregnant woman, who did not want her hemoglobin getting low and wanted to stay in health, to consume iron tablets regularly every day, at least 90 tablets during pregnancy
Keywords: Consumption of iron tablet, hemoglobin, pregnant woman
