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Eating Habit and Other Factors Related to Anemia in Civil Female Flight Attendant in Indonesia

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Anemia is a health problem in women that can interfere work performance including female flight attendant.

This study aimed to identify several dominant risk factors related to anemia in female flight attendants.

A cross-sectional study with purposive sampling was conducted to female flight attendant who performing periodic medical check-up at the Civil Aviation Medical Center, Jakarta on May 1-15, 2013. Data collected using structured questionnaire.

The data collected were demographic data, job characteristics, the characteristics of eating habits, menstrual history, body mass index, and hemoglobin levels. Hemoglobin levels were taken from flight attendant’s medical records at the Civil Aviation Medical Center, Jakarta. Anemia defined if hemoglobin levels less than12 g/dl.

Out of 225 female flight attendants who did medical checkup, 185 of them age 18-46 years old who willing to participate in this study, and 28.1% of them had anemia. Frequency of eating red meat/week, total working period, type of flight, and menstruation were dominant risk factors related to anemia. The most dominant risk factor was of eating red meat/week. Flight attendant who had eat meat for 3 times or more a week compared to less than 3 times a week had 43% less riskof having anemia [adjusted relative risk (RRa) = 0.57; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.32 – 1.03; P = 0.064). Flight attendant who had heavy flow menstruation than normal flow menstruation have 3.45 times higher risk of having anemia [RRa = 3.45; P = 0.000].

Flight attendant who had eating meat habit less than three times a week and having menstrual heavy flow has a high risk of having anemia. (Health Science Indones 2014;2:67-72)

Key words: anemia, flight attendant, meat, menstruation, Indonesia

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Health Science Journal of Indonesia, 5 (2) : 67-72

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Jakarta : Sekretariat Balitbangkes., 2014

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6p

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2087-7021

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ANEMIA
feeding behavior

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