Pengaruh Edukasi Gizi Melalui Tiktok terhadap Pengetahuan dan Sikap Remaja Putri dalam Upaya Pencegahan Anemia di Kota Medan

Abstract

The prevalence of anemia in teenagers has increased since 2007 in Indonesia so that it became 32% in 2018. It indicated that the prevention has not been done properly. This objective of the research was to analyze the influence of nutrition education through Tiktok on female teenager’s knowledge and attitude toward preventing anemia in Medan. The research used quasi-experiment with a pretest posttest control group design. The samples were 78 respondents with 39 respondents in each group. The result of Kolmogrov-Smirnov test showed that data were not distributed normally so that the data were analyzed by using Wilcoxon test and Mann Whitney test. The result of the research in the experiment group showed that the mean value of knowledge was from 9.92 to 15.03 or the score increased 59,56% at p-value = 0.001 (<0.005) and the mean value of attitude was from 7.69 to 12.59 or the score increased 66,48% at p-value = 0.001 (<0.005) which indicated that there was the influence of nutrition education through TikTok on female teenager’s knowledge and attitude. The result of the research in the control group showed that the mean value of knowledge was from 9.95 to 13.46 or the score increased 41,05% at p-value = 0.001 (<0.005) and the mean value of attitude was from 7.90 to 12.05 or the score increased 59,98% at p-value = 0.001 (<0.005) which indicated that there was the influence of nutrition education through leaflets on female teenager’s knowledge and attitude. The respondents knowledge (mean rank = 47.49) and their attitude (mean rank = 44.97) in the experimental group show had higher value than that in the control group so that it could be concluded tha nutrition education through TikTok was more effective to increasing female teenager’s knowledge and attitude toward preventing anemia than that through leaflets. Therefore, TikTok was expected to be able to be used as a health promotion media.