Local Culture-Based Nutrition Education Intervention on Iron Supplement Tablets (IST) Consumption Compliance in Female Adolescents at Ogan Komering Ilir Regency: A Quasi-Experimental Protocol Study

Local Culture-Based Nutrition Education Intervention on Iron Supplement Tablets (IST) Consumption Compliance in Female Adolescents at Ogan Komering Ilir Regency: A Quasi-Experimental Protocol Study

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the impact of a local culture-based nutritional education intervention on IST consumption compliance among female adolescents in the Ogan Komering Ilir Regency. The main questions it aims to answer are:

a To identify information for the development of a local culture-based nutrition education model and to build a ready-to-implement local culture-based nutrition education model.

b. To evaluate the implementation of the Anemia Prevention and Control Program among female adolescents in Ogan Komering Ilir Regency.

c. To test the impact of the local culture-based nutrition education model on the improvement of knowledge, attitude, and IST consumption compliance among female adolescents.

Participants will received IST and local culture-based nutrition education. Researchers will compare control group received IST as the Ministry of Health's program for the prevention of anemia with a subsidy for providing IST

Inclusion Criteria:

• public schools have received the IST program from the government, and the distance between schools is at least 10 kilometers
• students enrolled in grade 11, age range 15-17 years, menstruating, owning a smartphone, having an Instagram account, and obtaining parental approval to participate in this study

Exclusion Criteria:

• schools that are currently the object of another study and are difficult to reach (remote areas)
• students who have a BMI value≤ -3 SD and do not watch complete educational videos for the sample in the intervention group