PENGARUH PEMBERIAN JUICE BUAH NAGA TERHADAP PENINGKATAN HEMOGLOBIN

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Nutrition has a big role in determining maternal health. Malnutrition of pregnant
women is not only related to malnutrition in the developing fetus, but also directly affects
maternal health and the risk of maternal death. There are two critical pathways by which
maternal nutrition can affect fetal survival, namely anemia and calcium deficiency. Anemia in
pregnant women contributes as much as 20% of maternal deaths and low calcium consumption
can lead to gestational hypertension which can trigger preeclampsia and eclampsia, which are
the second most common cause of maternal death. Handling anemia by consuming plants such
as vegetables and fruits, one of which is dragon fruit. Dragon fruit contains high
phytochemicals, namely flavonoids 7.21 mg CE/100 grams. In addition, dragon fruit is a fruit
that is rich in antioxidants and relatively high calcium and iron which plays a good role in bone
and blood function. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of dragon fruit juice on
increasing Hb levels in pregnant women. The research method used is Quasi Experiment (quasi-
experimental) with pre-test post-test group design. The sampling technique of this research was
done by purposive sampling, obtained a sample of 30 respondents consisting of 15 respondents
from the intervention group and 15 respondents from the control group. The results showed that
there was an effect before and after being given dragon fruit juice, the test used a paired t test
where it was obtained for the intervention group p value 0.001 and for the control group p value
0.011.The intervention administration of Fe tablets and dragon fruit juice increased the Hb level
of pregnant women by 1.42 g/dl, while the administration of Fe tablets only gave an increase of
1.2 g/dl.