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Empowerment of the Youth Red Cross Peer Educators to Increase Knowledge towards Adherence to Consume Iron-Folic Acid Supplement in Lamongan

Background: Anaemia is one of the crucial public health problems that can affect the quality of human resources in the future, including young women who are in high schools. Besides affecting the quality of their life, anaemia can also have an impact on the next generation to become stunted. The iron-folic acid tablets have been given to young girls through schools. Aims: This study aimed to empower the Youth Red Cross members in schools to become peer educators to improve the compliance of students at SMAN 2Lamongan in consuming iron-folic acid tablets. Settings and Design: This study was a cross-sectional design involving 60 members of Youth Red Cross in Lamongan. The intervention consisted of training period of nutrition education and empowerment for 3 months using youth care approach since the Youth Red Cross members were believed to be good role models or peer leadership, peer support, and peer educators. After the training period, trained peer educators were assisted in providing nutrition education to their peers to increase compliance with iron-folic acid consumption. Methods and Material: The method used was training and mentoring to the Youth Red Cross members at SMAN 2 Lamongan. An anaemia media book or peer educator guide module was used to guide as a training reference and peer educator handbook. Statistical analysis used: The statistical analysis used was descriptive test. Result: The results of this study showed that there was significant correlation between knowledge and students’ behavioural compliance in taking iron-folic acid supplement (p=0.007). The intervention improved the knowledge and behaviourof Youth Red Cross membersaccording to the results of pre-test (good knowledge=38,3%, good behaviour=25%) and post-test (good knowledge=66,7%, good behaviour=41%). Conclusions: peer educators’ program towardsmembers of the Youth Red Cross Rochmah et al (2021): Peer Educator for Anaemia Jan 2021 Vol. 24 Issue 01 Annals of Tropical Medicine & Public Health http://doi.org/10.36295/ASRO.2021.24168 successfully improved their knowledge and behaviour to increase their compliance in taking iron-folic acid supplement.However, more intensive training is still needed.