Effect of Health Education and Iron Supplementation on Haemoglobin levels in Adolescent Girls

[...]no added iron supplementation, poor diet, loss in menarche and growth put them in a greater risk of anaemia. The inclusion criteria of the study were adolescent girls aged between 13-19 years and willing to give written informed consent and parental consent form, subjects with recent malaria, chronic disease like tuberculosis, and diagnosed morbidities such as sickle cell anaemia. In Group I, 50 adolescent girls received oral ferrous ascorbate 100 mg + folic acid 1.5 mg once a day in a week and in Group II, 50 adolescent girls received health education through oral counselling and issue of patient counselling leaflet (regarding disease status, monitoring of Hb levels, dietary counselling and medication adherence) with oral ferrous ascorbate 100 mg + folic acid 1.5 mg once a day in a week for three months. On the comparison of iron supplementation and health education with iron supplementation alone, it was found that the haemoglobin levels are found to be increased in both the study population but there was a statistical significant raise in Hb and Hct levels in group B (11.548±0.311 and 34.24±0.770) compared to group A (11.334±0.243 and 33.2±0.571) adolescent girls, respectively.