Anemia in adolescent girls, attributes to future in high maternal,perinatal mortality and incidence of low-birth-weight babies. This study intendedto evaluate the effectiveness of amla juice with honey in improvement of hemoglobin level among adolescent girls.The preexperimental one group pre -posttest design was adopted.The 30 adolescent girls with moderate anemiawere selected throughpurposive sampling technique. In pretest,the mean& SD value was 9.56±0.66 whereas in posttest 10.37± 0.70 respectively. The calculated paired ‘t’ valueof 20.36* was statistically significant at p<0.05. i.e., after one month of administration of amla juice with honey 27% samples were changed to moderate to mild anemia. The findings of the study showed that,amla juice with honey supplementation can significantly improving hemoglobin levels of adolescent girls and thereby prevent mortality and morbidity rates due to anemia of adolescents. Keywords: Effectiveness; Amla juice; Honey; Anemia and Adolescent girls.
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