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SOP Sistem Pengelolaan Pelayanan Kerja Sama Dalam Negeri
Get PDFSOP Sistem Pengelolaan Pelayanan Kerja Sama Dalam Neger
Adolescents’ Risk of Different Sexual Orientation Tendency in Terms of Family Factors (Case Study in Padang and Agam Regency)
Get PDFBACKGROUND: In the transition period, in adolescents occur the process of physical, cognitive, and social
maturation. This period is essential in the formation of sexual identity, which related to gender and sexual orientation.
Improper sexual identities will provoke sexual behavior problems. The problems with sexual behavior begin from
differences in sexual orientation with a sexual orientation generally accepted by the public (heterosexual). In some
adolescents, there is a change in sexual orientation that leads to homosexuality. The factors that play a significant
role in adolescent sexual orientation are parenting.
AIM: This study aimed to examine the risk of different sexual orientation tendencies in adolescents and the families’
factors in West Sumatra.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study’s design was a cross-sectional study with 532 adolescents aged
13–18 years old as the respondents. It took 3 months to research by using a questionnaire as the instrument. The
questionnaire’s data were analyzed using Chi-square.
RESULTS: The results showed that the risk of different sexual behaviors in adolescents was 59.4% normal tendency,
26.7% low tendency, and 13.9% high tendency. Furthermore, family factors related significantly to the risk of different
sexual behavior tendencies were gender and family intimacy factors (p < 0.05), while age, family type factors, and
family income factors (p > 0.05) are not significantly related.
CONCLUSION: Based on that, it concluded that the parents expected to develop closer relationships with family member
#Stressed: Covid-19, Chronic Illness and Technostress
Get PDFThe use of online resources, particularly search engines and
social media, for health-related information is on a steady
upward trajectory. With its accessibility and ease of use, the
Internet has founded a new era of information gathering and
society has naturally gravitated towards the use of
internet-based resources to find out more about all aspects
of our own health (West et al., 2020). This has had rather
unsurprising results for the way in which consumers engage
with their health and with healthcare professionals, with many
consumers armed and ready with some level of online-sourced
health information prior to engaging with their local GP or
specialist. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its sudden onset
and widespread ramifications, gave many people yet another
reason to pick up their smartphones and utilise online health
resources to understand something that came to affect almost
every person in one way or another, and became a pervasive
part of our everyday lives. Indeed, with COVID-19 necessitating a reduced amount of travel and face to face contact
with healthcare professionals, online platforms have become
an essential way of accessing this information.
However, research assessing knowledge and perceptions of
COVID-19 among the general public indicates that participants have been prone to believe some misconceptions and
falsehoods circulated particularly on social media (Geldsetzer,
2020). Ready access to a large amount of information about
COVID-19 on social media coupled with its problematic use,
including misinformation, has contributed to high levels of
stress and cognitive symptoms called ‘technostress’. Brod
(1984) originally defined ‘technostress’ as the inability to adapt
to computer technology in a healthy way. Tarafdar et al.
(2011) describe five technostress conditions: namely
techno-overload, where users cannot determine whether the
information is useful or not; techno-invasion, where technology users never feel free from technology; techno-complexity,
where users experience feelings of incompetency and
powerlessness from an inability to learn or deal with technology; techno-insecurity, marked by feelings of anxiety about
using technology; and techno-uncertainty, where constant
changes in technology cause stress to the user.
While patients with health conditions require timely
access to healthcare information, they often use information
technology, including social media, to access such information. Subsequently, patients with chronic illnesses, who have
a higher-than-average need for health information, may be
exposed to information that is incomplete, conflicting, misleading, or inaccurate. This may place patients at increased
risk of technostress. Couple this with an increased urgency
in accessing online health information to stay abreast of
COVID-19 information and there is an increased risk for
technostress amongst an already vulnerable group, and scope
for this technostress to tip over into the realm of physical
and mental health impact. What needs to be understood is
the extent to which technostress, exacerbated by COVID-19
information-seeking and coupled with chronic illness, manifests as a mental health challenge for those experiencing
this. If the need for information draws those with a chronic
illness further into the use of media platforms that can, in
turn, trigger technostress, how can we identify and manage
the potential mental health impacts of this illness-stress
combination? Additionally, is this group more likely to experience technostress and ensuing physical and mental health
impacts as a consequence of their chronic illnesses during
the COVID-19 pandemic? With these questions in mind
the authors undertook research into this area of crossover
between chronic illness and technostres
Effect of Crude Extracts of Six Plants on Vegetative Growth of Soybean (Glycine maxMerr.)
No full textEffect of Crude Extracts of Six
Plants on Vegetative Growth of
Soybean (Glycine maxMerr.
The Efficacy of Commercial Aerosol Insecticides to German Cockroaches (Blattella germanica L.) Populations from Two Places in Indonesia
Get PDFAerosol spray insecticides are widely available in Indonesia's public market to control the German cockroach population, but the reports on their effectiveness are still limited. This study aimed to determine the efficacy of six pyrethroid insecticides in the form of aerosol sprays (By, Ht, Vp, Nm, Mt, and Fm) against field German Cockroaches populations in Indonesia (Palembang and Bukittinggi populations). Five insecticides effectively paralyzed the Bukittinggi population and ineffective to the Palembang population by the knockdown time (KT90) criteria. All aerosol insecticides were ineffective in killing Bukittinggi and Palembang Cockroaches populations by the lethal time (LT90) criteria. The pyrethroid insecticides sold in the public market were no longer effective in killing the German Cockroaches population. The results show a high level of resistance in two German cockroach populations in Indonesia.
KEYWORDS: urban pest, phyrethroid, chemical insecticide, resistance, Indonesia
