<![CDATA[The results of Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) issued by the Health Research and Development Agency (Baritbankes) of the Indonesian Ministry of Health in 2018 stated that the prevalence of anemia in pregnant women in Indonesia was 48.9%. In North Sumatra, blood tests were carried out on pregnant women from 9,377 pregnant women in three cities, namely Medan, Pematang Siantar and Kisaran. 33% of them had anemia. One of the causes of anemia in pregnancy is iron deficiency. The type of research used was pre-experiment with One Group Pretest-Posttest Design. In this study, using purposive sampling technique, namely 34 pregnant women. Adherence is the level of patients carrying out the treatment and behavior suggested by their doctor or by others. Meanwhile, the compliance with taking blood-supplemented tablets is a behavior where pregnant women support the iron supplementation program carried out by the government to prevent anemia in pregnant women. Based on the results of the research discussion entitled "Effectiveness of Extension through Audio Visual Media Using Animation Videos on Compliance with the Consumption of Iron (Fe) Tablets in Pregnant Women in the Work Area of ??the Tanjung Morawa community Health Center in 2020, it can be concluded that the compliance of respondents before being given counseling was the majority as obedient as 22 respondents ( 35.3%) and the compliance of respondents after being given counseling was the majority obedient as many as 29 respondents (85.3%), and the effectiveness of counseling through audio-visual media using animation videos on compliance with consuming iron tablets (Fe) in pregnant women in the work area of ?? Tanjung Morawa community health center in 2020 after being given counseling with the results of the T test paired sample T-test, it was obtained that sig 2 tailed was 0.000 (p value) <0.05. And it is hoped that the next researchers will develop this research using other media]]>
