A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Beetroot Juice with Jaggery on Hemoglobin Level among the Adolescent Girls in Selected Nursing College at Bangalore, Karnataka

Abstract

Adolescent is a coming up age, as children grow into adults, there teen years are a period of intense growth, not only physically, but also mentally and socially. Because of this rapid growth adolescents are especially vulnerable to anemia. Proper nutrition included adequate iron intake plays on important part of teen growth and development. The beetroot juice with jaggery plays an integral function to increase the haemoglobin level in the blood. Hence the researcher intends to assess the beetroot juice with jaggery on hemoglobin level among the adolescent girls. The study objectives were to assess the pre-test and post test score of haemoglobin level among adolescence girls in both experimental and control group. The research design used was one group pre test and post test experimental and control group. Adolescent girls with who are studying in global college of nursing students. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used to select the 60 adolescent girls with frank anemia and border line anemia (30 in experimental group and 30 in control group). Using structured questionnaire, the information were collected. Tall Quist method was used for checking haemoglobin. Regarding effectiveness of beetroot juice with jaggery, the overall mean score of experimental group in the pre-test was 11.90 and 14.06 in the post test with enhancement of 2.16 and it was significant at P<0.001% level and the overall mean score of control group in the pre-test was 11.73 and 11.55 in the post with mild enhancement of 0.18 and it was non-significant at P<0.001% level. There is no significant association at 5% level (P>0.05) both in experimental group and control group. The study concluded that the hemoglobin levels of the adolescent girls have been improved in experimental group then the control group after administering the beetroot juice with jaggery hence the beetroot juice and jaggery is effective on increasing haemoglobin levels.