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    Level of Knowledge and Frequency of Consumption of Food Sources of Iron in Pregnant Women who are attended at the Defensores de La Patria Health Center, Ventanilla, 2022
    (Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2022-11-24) Pimentel Montalvo, Glenda Saby; Luján Torrealva, Franco Silvio
    General Objective: Determine the level of knowledge and frequency of consumption of foods that are sources of iron in pregnant women who are treated at the “Defensores de la Patria Health Center, Ventanilla, 2022”. Material and Method: The study will be descriptive, with a quantitative, cross-sectional, non-experimental approach. As an instrument, a questionnaire will be used which will be made up of 10 questions with a single answer on foods that are sources of iron to evaluate knowledge in pregnant women, which will be classified as high level of knowledge (10-7 pts.), medium (6-4 pts. .) and low (3-0 pts.) and a questionnaire made up of 11 items, where the frequency of food consumption is recorded with the objective of analyzing the level of iron consumption in general within the diet of the interviewees, which will be classified into high (44-30 pts.), medium (29-15 pts.) and low (14-0 pts.) consumption levels. Results: Regarding the level of knowledge of the pregnant women about foods that are sources of iron, it was observed that 8.33% (n=5) had a low level of knowledge, 68.3% (n=41) had a medium level of knowledge, and 23.3% (n=41) had a medium level of knowledge. % (n=14) have a high level of knowledge. Conclusion: The level of knowledge of foods that are sources of iron in pregnant women treated at the Defensores de la Patria Health Center in 2022 has average knowledge with 68.3% of pregnant women surveyed. The level of frequency of consumption of foods that are sources of iron in pregnant women treated at the Defensores de la Patria Health Center was medium with a percentage of 98.33% of pregnant women surveyed. However, the majority of pregnant women surveyed are unaware of iron deficiency anemia.