Implementation of Reproductive Health Gymnastics Against Female Adolescents Hemoglobin Level

Abstract

Anemia in female adolescent has a risk to women's health, both short and long term which will disrupt the life cycle of women. Reproductive health exercises adopted from aerobics and SKJ 2012 are believed to be good physical activity choices, especially for female adolescents to deal with anemia problems. The purpose of this study was to prove the implementation of reproductive health exercise on the hemoglobin levels of female adolescents. This study used 30 respondents as research subjects. The intervention group was given reproductive health exercises and Fe tablets for 4 weeks with a duration of 18 minutes 3 times a week. Blood collection are namely before after treatment and menstruation. The results of this study found an increase in hemoglobin levels. The average increase in hemoglobin level from 10.43 gr/dL to 13.98 gr /dL with an increase of 3.54 gr /dL, by statistical test there was a significant difference in p-value <0.05. Meanwhile, the mean hemoglobin level of the intervention group with control was different with p-value <0.05. The conclusion of this study proves that the implementation of reproductive health exercise has an effect on the hemoglobin level of female adolescents.

Keywords

• gymnastics reproductive health
• hemoglobin
• female adolescents