The Influence of Health Belief Model Components On the Consumption of Blood Supplementing Tablets in Adolescent Women at Indonesia Putera Vocational School, Blitar City

Abstract

Background: The government's efforts to tackle anemia through a program providing Blood Supplement Tablets. Anemia during adolescence women has an impact on decreasing concentration when carrying out learning activities, decreasing physical fitness and can cause growth disorders so that height and weight do not reach normal. Data from the Kepanjenkidul Health Center in November 2022, the provision of tablets to adolescent women at vocational school level, from 10 schools in the Kepanjenkidul Health Center area, the highest number of adolescent women who received tablets was at Indonesia Putera Vocational School, Blitar City with 320 adolescent women.

Method: The research uses observational analytics with a cross sectional approach. The total sample was 148 adolescent women at Indonesia Putera Vocational School, Blitar City. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling. The independent variables consist of perceived vulnerability, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, cues to action and self-efficacy. The dependent variable is the consumption of blood supplement tablets in adolescent women. This research uses an instrument in the form of a questionnaire. Data analysis uses the Ordinalyl Regression test.

Results: The research results show a Goodness of Fit value of sig. 0.136>0.05 the regression model is appropriate or matches the observation data. Model Fitting Information shows the sig value. 0.000<0.05 which is significant shows how much influence variables X₁ (susceptibility), X₂ (severity), and X₃ (benefits), X₄ (barriers), X₅ (cues to act), dan X₆ (self efficassion) through consumption of blood supplement tablets with the highest R-square value, namely Nagelkerke, which means variable X is able to influence variable Y with a Z score of 50.7%