Impact of Iron Dietary Supplement on the Attention Capacity in High school Girl Students

Iron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency throughout the world. Iron deficiency affects the attention performance in two ways; the direct impact of Iron on the production of neurotransmitters, and the impact ofIron on the production of hemoglobin and anemia. The aim of this study was to identify the Impact of iron replacement on the attention capacity in high school female student in orth Khorasan. Two hundred female students from the North Khorasan high schools were randomly chosen and laboratory studies were done on them aiming to detect iron consumption limitations. Then they were divided to case and control groups. The two groups were matched and the case group was treated with an iron supplement program for 16 week and the results were compared between two groups. For attention score measurement, we used Tholuse- Pieron tool. The data were analyzed with the SPSS version 13. The attention mean score in the case group was 113.6, and in the control group was 46.7 (p:S0.001). The total selection mean score in the first halftime to the second halftime in the case group was 0.75, and in the control group was 1.9 (p:S0.001).Theperformance through the time in the control group was diminished when compared to case group. In this study the effects of iron replacement on the attention capacity was supported.