Remaja ASIK and Optimized Food-based Recommendations

Summary

Good nutritional status among adolescents is a window of opportunity to produce healthy adults or pregnant individuals. Modifying the dietary habits during adolescent girls may be a sustainable approach to ensure good nutritional status among population because those habits tend to stay for a life time. Over many years, there has much effort to overcome anemia. Iron supplementation and fortification have been the most popular and convenient strategies to combat anemia. However, there has not much success due to the high still prevalence of anemia among children and women reproductive age. Food-based approach has been defined as one of the most effective programs to combat or reduce the prevalence of anemia. In the meantime, food based recommendations (FBR) formulation through linear programming (LP) approach has been found to be more effective than the traditional method of developing FBRs called "trial and error". LP approach allows us to develop optimized diet for target population with addition to detect the nutrient problem in specific region. This study therefore aims to identify the nutrient problems in the community, to develop optimized FBR employing the LP approach and to assess effect of nutrition education using optimized FBR in order to improve the nutritional and hemoglobin status among adolescent schoolgirls in rural Malang City.

This study was conducted in several phases: 1) cross-sectional study 2) intervention study. Cross-sectional study was aimed to formulate optimized food based recommendations using linear programming. Intervention study was performed during 20 weeks with Remaja ASIK as the tagline which means Active, Healthy, Smart, and Creative. Adolescent schoolgirls aged 14-18 years was the subject of this study and 496 subjects were selected, including 152 for first phase and 344 for third phase. In addition, selected school based on inclusion criteria: 1) not boarding schools; and 2) having large number of students. In doing data collection, we collected socioecodemoghraphic data, anthropometry, biochemical data, dietary data, and cogitive performance.

Conditions

• Anemia

Interventions

OTHER

Intervention group

Training of Trainers (ToT) was conducted among teacher who would deliver the messages. "Remaja ASIK" is Indonesian tagline meant "girls who are active, healthy, smart, and creative". Nutrition education was performed in every Friday, at least 30 minutes during 20 weeks. In brief, this is the key messages of optimized food based recommendations: 1) 3 meals and 2 snack every day, 2) At least 2 portions of vegetables/day including at least 5 portions/week of green leafy vegetables, 3) At least 2 portions/day of animal protein including at least 2 portions/week of liver, 4) At least 1 portion/day of tempe or tofu, 5) At least 1 portion/day of fruit, 6) At least 3 portions/week of milk.Trained teachers delivered the messages accompanied by supervisor. The delivered topics were key messages, balance nutrition, anemia, menstruation, BMI, healthy and smart, strong bone, lunch box, safe snack, and food label.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Malang State Health Polytechnic

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta

  collaborator OTHER

• SEAMEO Regional Centre for Food and Nutrition

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Umi Fahmida, PhD · SEAMEO RECFON

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

14 Years

Max Age

18 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-02-08

Primary Completion

2017-05-10

Completion

2017-05-10

Countries

• Indonesia

Study Locations