A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge, Practice and Attitude on Iron Deficiency Anemia among Adolescent Girls at Selected Private School, Kanchipuram Dt, Tamilnadu, India

Prevalence of iron deficiency anemia is more common among adolescent girls. A descriptive study to assessthe knowledge, practice and attitude on iron deficiency anemia among adolescent girls was conducted. Thestudy objectives were to assess the level of knowledge, practice and attitude on iron deficiency anemiaamong adolescent girls, and to find out the association between the level of knowledge, practice and attitudeon iron deficiency anemia among adolescent girls and with their selected demographic variables, and to findout the correlation between the knowledge & practice, knowledge & attitude and practice & attitude. 100Adolescent girls in the age group of 13-18 years were selected as a sample for this study, based on inclusioncriteria. The purposive sampling technique was used. Structured questionnaire, check list and likert scalewas used as a tool to collect the data on knowledge, practice and attitude on iron deficiency anemia.Chi-square and Karl Pearson Coefficient of correlation were used for data analysis. The study result showsthat, Majority (75%) of adolescent girls were having moderate knowledge, 24% were having inadequateknowledge, and only 1% were having adequate knowledge on iron deficiency anemia. Majority (75%) ofadolescent girls were having desirable practice, few 25% were having undesirable practice on iron deficiencyanemia. In this study, for the knowledge, practice and attitude, mean, mean percentage and standard deviationwas estimated. For the knowledge, practice and attitude, the association with the demographic variable werepartially accepted. The correlation between knowledge & practice, knowledge & attitude and practice &attitude were rejected. The study concluded that, Adolescents girls were not having sufficient awarenessregarding iron deficiency anemia. The study recommended that, health teaching regarding iron deficiencyanemia to adolescent girls is must to overcome the high prevalence rate