Effectiveness Of Beetroot Juice On Hemoglobin Level Among First Year B.Sc. Nursing Girls In College Of Nursing, Adesh University, Bathinda.

Ms. Kundan Johnson; Ms. Simaranjit Kaur; Shridhar K.V

Volume : IX, Issue : V, May - 2020

Effectiveness Of Beetroot Juice On Hemoglobin Level Among First Year B.Sc. Nursing Girls In College Of Nursing, Adesh University, Bathinda.

Ms. Kundan Johnson, Ms. Simaranjit Kaur, Shridhar K. V

Abstract :

Adolescence has been defined by the World Health Organization as the period of life spanning the ages between 10 to 19 years. This is the formative period of life when the maximum amount of physical, psychological, and behavioral changes take place. Beet root juice is particularly beneficial as an anemia remedy for children and teenagers. Many studies proved that beetroot also contribute to improve the hemoglobin level in the blood .The aim of present study is planned to Assess the effectiveness of beetroot juice to improve the hemoglobin level among First year B.Sc. nursing girls by using the cyanmethemoglobin. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was To assess the effectiveness of Beet root juice on Hemoglobin among first year B.Sc. nursing girls in experimental group by estimating HB level using cyanmethemoglobin method. A quasi experimental study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of beetroot juice on hemoglobin among First year B.Sc. nursing girls in Adesh college of nursing , Bathinda, Punjab.�. The non probability convenience sampling technique used to selected 60 First year B.Sc. nursing girls were selected for the study, in that 30 girls were in experimental and 30 girls were in the control group . METHOD ; The fresh prepared beetroot juice administration of 250ml to the 30 experiment group. Then the Pre and post test was conducted by cyanmethemoglobin method before and after the administration of beetroot juice over a period of 30 days .The data was done analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The present study showed that there was a significant difference between Hemoglobin Level before and after administering 250ml of beetroot juice in Experimental group. RESULT : The mean difference of –0.53 was statistically significant since the observed �t�value of 9.597 was higher than table value of p at 0.05. The nurse have to play a vital role in building the knowledge and understanding the importance of prevention of anemia. This can be facilitated by motivating the nurse to improve the theory Based knowledge to educate the community to use locally available resources to improve the Health. By this the anemia can be prevented among the adolescents girls and in future the complications due anemia can be prevented.