Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Studies 2025 (ICOMSI 2025)

Empowering Adolescent Girls in Anemia Prevention through Monitoring Book Media: A Qualitative Health Promotion Study

Authors
Yulistiana Evayanti1, 4, *, Suwarto Suwarto2, Retno Setyowati2, Sri Mulyani3
1Postgraduate Program of Community Empowerment/Development Counseling, Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta, Indonesia
2Faculty of Agriculture, Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta, Indonesia
3Faculty of Medicine, Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta, Indonesia
4Midwifery Professional Study Program, Malahayati University, Lampung, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: yulistianaevayanti@student.uns.ac.id
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Yulistiana Evayanti
Available Online 6 May 2026.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-571-3_3How to use a DOI?
Keywords
adolescent girls; anemia prevention; empowerment; health promotion; monitoring book
Abstract

Background: Anemia among adolescent girls remains a major public health problem linked to growth, menstruation, and poor nutrition. Current prevention efforts, including promoting healthy lifestyles, providing iron supplements, and encouraging school-parent collaboration, have not yielded optimal results. Challenges include dependence on primary health centers (Puskesmas), low health literacy, and educational media that are less accessible or engaging. Lampung Province has the highest anemia prevalence in Sumatra (63%), with 24.3% among adolescent girls. Lampung Tengah Regency also shows low program coverage at 39.22% of the 75% target. Objective: This study aimed to explore an effective empowerment model for adolescent girls in preventing anemia in Lampung Tengah Regency. Methods: This study employed a qualitative phenomenological design, collecting data through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions (FGDs) with 8 participants they are students, parents, teachers, healthcare staff, and health officials, selected via purposive sampling. The data were analyzed thematically with N-VIVO through open, axial, and selective coding, with triangulation applied for validity. Results: Existing media such as smartphones and oral counseling were ineffective due to school phone restrictions, poor connectivity, and low engagement. Most participants preferred a personal monitoring book as an alternative. The book met eight criteria: practicality, reminders, standard monitoring, self-assessment, visual appeal, daily iron targets, nutrition calculator, and shared access. This tool enhanced adolescents’ awareness and self-reliance in anemia prevention while promoting stronger cross-sectoral collaboration in health promotion.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Multidisciplinary Studies 2025 (ICOMSI 2025)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
6 May 2026
ISBN
978-2-38476-571-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-571-3_3How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2026 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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AU  - Suwarto Suwarto
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