LITERATURE REVIEW: THE RELATIONSHIP OF KNOWLEDGE LEVEL OF ANEMIA PREGNANT WOMEN WITH CONSUMING IRON (Fe) TABLETS

Abstract

Anemia is a condition in which the body has too few red blood cells (erythrocytes), where the red blood cells contain hemoglobin that serves to carry oxygen throughout the body's tissues. Knowledge is to include what a person knows is related to health and illness or ways of maintaining health. Pregnant women's knowledge of anemia, iron source foods as well as the need to take iron tablets (Fe) is relatively low. Knowledge is also related to the formation of one's behavior because knowledge is a very important domain in shaping behavior. The prevalence of anemia in pregnant women in Indonesia is 37.1%. Literature aims to find out how the relationship of knowledge level of pregnant women anemia by taking iron tablets (Fe).

The method used in this study is a literature review with article data sources through Google Scholar and Mendeley (2013-2021) to retrieve the appropriate articles and published in Indonesian and English language. Related keywords are anemia, pregnancy, and iron tablets (Fe). Design inclusion studies using Literature Review.

Literature review results from 8 journals show that there is a significant association between the knowledge of pregnant women anemia and taking iron tablets (Fe).

Overall from the 8 journals it can be concluded that knowledge is an important factor in pregnant women in the behavior of taking iron tablets (Fe).