The Effect of Nutrition Education Through Flashcard Media on Knowledge of Iron Sources Food Consumption in Adolescent Women at SMP N 33 Bekasi City

Abstract

In young women the nutritional problems that are still experienced are nutritional anemia caused by a lack of
consumption of food sources of iron. Adolescent girls who consumed food sources of iron were still relatively low in
the animal food group (meat, chicken, liver, fish, eggs) 39% and from the vegetable side dishes (tofu and tempeh)
31.2%. One of programs to improve nutritional anemia that can be done is through nutrition education. In the process of
nutrition education it is necessary to have visual aids that can help the learning process to be effective and attract
students' attention regarding the consumption of iron intake in young women at school. Flashcards can be applied to
junior high school students, because students can understand from the contents of the picture cards which contain
information related to knowledge of consumption of food sources of iron. This study aims to analyze the effect of
nutrition education through flashcard media on knowledge of consumption of food sources of iron in young women at
SMPN 33 Bekasi City. The research design is a quasi-experimental design in the form of a one group pretest-posttest
design. The research subjects consisted of 34 female students as the intervention group. The media used is flashcard
media for food sources of iron from the carbohydrate, animal, vegetable, legumes, vegetables, fruits, and dairy product
groups referring to the 2017 Indonesian Food Composition Table. The results of statistical analysis using the Wilcoxon
Rank Test showed that providing nutrition education using flashcard media on knowledge of consumption of food
sources of iron in female adolescents was p-value = 0.00005 (<0.05). This means that there is an effect before and after
providing nutrition education using flashcard media on knowledge of consumption of food sources of iron in young
women at SMPN 33 Bekasi City