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Girls (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> 274) from twelve villages randomly selected out of 100 potential villages received daily tablets containing iron (<jats:sc>iii<\/jats:sc>) hydroxide polymaltose complex equivalent to 100 mg of elemental Fe and 350 \u03bcg of folic acid (commercially available as Feritas tablets, marketed by Intas Pharmaceutical Ltd, India). IFA was given for 100 d and supervised by school teachers and <jats:italic>anganwadi<\/jats:italic> workers. Compliance was measured using cards and interviews.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980012002704_abs3\" sec-type=\"general\"><jats:title>Setting<\/jats:title><jats:p>Community-based iron supplementation programme.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980012002704_abs4\" sec-type=\"subjects\"><jats:title>Subjects<\/jats:title><jats:p>Tribal adolescent girls aged 12\u201319 years.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980012002704_abs5\" sec-type=\"results\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>In total 233 girls completed the study. Prevalence of anaemia was reduced from 94 % at baseline to 69 % after the intervention. Compliance rate (&gt;80 tablets) was 89 %. Minor side-effects were reported by three girls, yet they consumed &gt;80 tablets. Factors associated with compliance included fasting during the local festival (<jats:italic>\u03c7<\/jats:italic><jats:bold><jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup><\/jats:bold> = 72\u00b774, df 3; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0\u00b70001) and counselling (<jats:italic>\u03c7<\/jats:italic><jats:bold><jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup><\/jats:bold> = 72\u00b774, df 3; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0\u00b70001). Other qualitative factors like social mobilization, timely supply of tablets, quality of tablets (blister pack) and availability of teachers and <jats:italic>anganwadi<\/jats:italic> workers were also associated with the compliance and feasibility.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1368980012002704_abs6\" sec-type=\"conclusion\"><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>High compliance indicates that IFA supplementation with tablets is feasible among the tribal adolescent girls of Bijadandi block, Mandla district.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1017\/s1368980012002704","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,5,28]],"date-time":"2012-05-28T10:16:30Z","timestamp":1338200190000},"page":"377-380","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Factors associated with high compliance\/feasibility during iron and folic acid supplementation in a tribal area of Madhya Pradesh, India"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Tapas","family":"Chakma","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Pinnamneni","family":"Vinay Rao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Pradeep Kumar","family":"Meshram","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,5,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"S1368980012002704_ref7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/ajcn\/69.6.1249"},{"key":"S1368980012002704_ref6","first-page":"584","article-title":"Adolescent girls\u2019 anaemia control programme, Gujarat, India","volume":"130","author":"Kotecha","year":"2009","journal-title":"Indian J Med Res"},{"key":"S1368980012002704_ref4","unstructured":"National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau, National Institute of Nutrition (2003) Prevalence of Micronutrient Deficiencies. 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