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THE CORRELATION BETWEEN EDUCATION, WORK, AND MATERNAL KNOWLEDGE ON COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING WITH 6-24 MONTHS' NUTRITIONAL STATUS
Get PDFBackground: Indonesian Basic Health Research in 2018 reported that the prevalence of malnutrition in Indonesia was 17.7% which consists of 13.8% malnutrition and 3.9% severe malnutrition. In West Java Province, the prevalence of malnutrition and severe malnutrition is still high at 15.6%. The aim of this study is to examine the correlation between education, work, and maternal knowledge about complementary feeding with baby nutrition status aged 6-24 months.
Methodology: This was a cross sectional study. The sample of this study was 100 mothers of infants aged 6 to 24 months in the Tegalgubug Health Center, in Cirebon City which selected by cluster sampling. Data have been collected from questionnaires and anthropometric measurement of weight for age Z (WAZ). Nutritional status was categorized into malnutrition status if z score <-2 SD up to <-3 SD, and good nutrition status if z score -2 SD to 2 SD. The analysis of the study was tested by Spearman correlation.
Results: From 100 respondents,51% of them were low educated mother, 55% were working mother, 51% had good knowledge, and 83% had good nutrition's babies. The bivariate analysis showed that education, working status, and mother's knowledge about complementary feeding were statistically significant correlated with nutritional status of infants (p=0.021, p=0.020, p=0.013, respectively).
Conclusion: Education, working status, and knowledge were significant correlated with nutritional status of infants aged 6 to 24 months. Malnutrition of infants can be greatly reduced by educating maternal about complementary feeding and given accurate information about nutritional status of infants.
Keywords: Education, complementary feeding knowledge, nutritional statu
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MOTHER'S KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION AND FAMILY INCOME WITH NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF TODDLER (AGED 1-5 YEARS)
Get PDFBackground: The role of mothers in the growth and development of toddlers is very important. Mothers must know and understand what is needed for that process because this will affect the nutritional status of toddlers. This relates to knowledge, education, and mother's income which will affect the provision of food intake for infants. Nutritional status of children is still one of the problems in the world. The incidence of malnutrition in the world reached 104 million children and malnutrition is one-third causes of child mortality worldwide. Basic Health Research in 2007, the prevalence of toddler malnutrition in Indonesia was 18.4%, an increase from 2013 to 19.6% and decreased again in 2018 to 17.7% in the year.
Aims: To find out the correlation between mothers' knowledge level, education and family revenue with nutritional status of toddler.
Methods: This research used Cross Sectional design, used Accidental sampling techniques. The samples were taken 289 toddlers (1-5 years). The data obtained were analysed using spearman test.
Results: Spearman test results showed there is no significant correlation (p> 0.05) between mother's knowledge level, education and family revenue with nutritional status of toddler.
Conclusion: There is no correlation between mother's knowledge level, education and family revenue with nutritional status of toddler in Kalitanjung Cirebon Health Center.
Keywords: Knowledge level, Mother's education, Revenue, Nutritional status of toddle
IMPACT OF OBESITY AND DIABETES MELLITUS TYPE II WITH INCIDENCE OF HYPERTENSION IN AGE 45-65 YEARS OLD
Get PDFBackground: Hypertension is one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity in Indonesia. Hypertension is also the third biggest risk factor for early deaths. Several previous researches have shown that obesity and diabetes mellitus type II (DM type II) are the factors in the occurrence of hypertension. Previous research did not include the stage of obesity and DM type II, by this reason the research was aimed to analyze the correlation between the stage of obesity and stage of DM type II withhypertension.
Methodology: This research used observational analytic with cross-sectional design. This study involved 161 patients who were selected by consecutive sampling method. The inclusion criteria of the sample were aged 45-60 years old, obese, and have been diagnosed of DM type II and hypertension in Waled Regional General Hospital.
Results: The result revealed that stage of obesity and stage of DM type II were significantly associated with hypertension (p<001, p<01, respectively). Other variables that also significantly associated with hypertension were age and gender.
Conclusion: There was the strong correlation between stage of obesity and hypertension. Public health policy maker may promote to prevent the obesity in order to decrease the incidence of hypertension.
Keywords: Obesity, DM type II, Hypertensio
USING THE SMARTPHONE APPLICATION FOR PREGNANCY CARE: A LITERATURE REVIEW
Get PDFBackground: Smartphones are new media that provide greater benefits than conventional health education. It provides ease and quick access information for users and they may repeat any time. This study aims to analyze the use of various applications related to assessment care, including pregnancy.
Methodology: The literatures was collected from e-databases such as Science direct, PubMed, and Google Scholar. Journal criteria used by using RCT (Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) techniques and English-language journals. 5 international journal articles were found by using the keywords "smartphone applications” and "pregnancy care”. The journal had to be conducted in 2014-2019.
Results: The smartphone application was a medium that used to get information easier, faster and efficient. Those 5 journal articles were conducted in Indonesia (1 journal), Australia (3 journals), and USA (1 journal). It has been proven in 5 research articles to show effectiveness results in information acquisition, management of anxiety, weight management, management of antenatal care visits and management of childbirth preparations, thus helping pregnant women to optimally care for pregnancy.Overall, all of the applications were effective as the health promotor media.
Conclusion: The future recommendations are needed to improve the materials and the information in term of pregnancy. The usage of application as health education media should be develop for low middle-income household.
Keywords: Smartphone, Pregnancy, Applicatio
THE INFLUENCE OF GALBLADDER ACUPRESSURE POINT 21 (JIAN JING) AND STOMACH 18 (RU GEN) IN INCREASEING BREASTMILK PRODUCTION
Get PDFBackground: The breast milk is the best food for the babies containing white blood cells, proteins and immune substances which are suitable for them. Various treatments have been applied to increase breast milk, including pharmacological and nonpharmacological methods. Among the nonpharmacological methods are complementary acupressure treatments which include gallbladder 21 (Jian Jing) and stomach 18 (Ru Gen).This study aims to determine the effect of acupressure points gallbladder 21 (Jian Jing) and stomach 18 (Ru Gen) on breast milk production in postpartum period.
Methodology: This study used quasi experimental design with pretest posttest with control group design. The population of this study all postpartum mothers around the researcher's work area in Ngesrep and Pegandan Health Center, Semarang City in May-June 2017 who met the inclusion criteria. The number of samples are 22 postpartum mothers who are in 3-7 postpartum days. The sampling technique is purposive sampling.
Results: The results showed that the difference of average baby weight as an indicator of breast milk production before and after intervention was 2889 grams to 2776 grams with a difference of 112 grams in the treatment group and 2901 grams to 2683 grams with a difference of 246 grams in the control group. The statistical independence tests showed that there was an effect of acupressure point gallbladder 21 (Jian Jing) and stomach 18 (Ru Gen) on breast milk production in postpartum period (p<0.001).
Conclusion: From the results study, it is expected that acupressure can be socialized and applied among health workers as one of the techniques to facilitate breast milk production in postpartum period.
Keywords: acupressure, gallbladder 21, stomach 18, breast milk, postpartum perio
FACTORS AFFECTING IRON AND FOLICACID CONSUMPTION AMONG ADOLESCENTS: A LITERATURE REVIEW
Get PDFBackground: Adolescents who experience anemia in 2018 reach 48.9%. The Indonesian government's program on taking blood tablets is done once a week. Anemia in adolescents in 2013 to 2018 has increased by 11.8%. This study aims to determine factor that related to iron and folic acid supplement consumption.
Methodology: Research articles are reviewed from several sources, which is Pubmed, Science Direct, and Google Scholar. The article written by English with key words for compliance with iron tablets and folic acid, side effects and other influencing factors. This article search starts from 2009 to 2019 and related books.
Results: Anemia in adolescents is still a problem. Factors that influence the regularity of drinking iron and folic acid supplementation include the side effects caused, how to consume the iron and folic acid supplement correctly without combine with other drinks, socio-cultural factors, and difficulties swallowing tablets.
Conclusion: Policies that need to be implemented are health promotion by increasing knowledge about anemia, the importance of iron and folic acid and conducting periodic supervision. This supervision can be done by carrying out the movement of taking iron tablets and folic acid simultaneously at the same time and day that is directly supervised by the school teacher.
Keywords: anemia of adolescents, iron tablets, folic aci
ATTITUDES TOWARDS HIV AIDS AMONG MIDWIFERY STUDENTS IN YOGYAKARTA
Get PDFBackground: The incidence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection in the world remains high as a challenge in achieving some targets of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Midwifery students have very important role to prevent the mother to child transmission of HIV. Attitude was one indicator of a person's behavior or often also called close behavior. Negative attitude may lead stigma and discrimination for managing HIV/AIDS patient. The aim of this study was to determine the factorsrelated midwifery student's attitude towards HIV/AIDS.
Methodology: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 130 applied science midwifery students in Yogyakarta who were selected by proportional sampling. A self-administered questionnaire was used in this study. Knowledge was measured through true and false statement questions and attitude towards HIV measured through Likert scale. The analysis of univariate, bivariate, and multivariate were analyzed by computer.
Results: More than three fourth of the respondents were 21 years or older. The bivariate analysis found HIV information from lecturer, HIV information from clinical instructors, experience managing HIV patient, and level of knowledge were significantly associated with attitudes towards HIV/AIDS. After adjusted to other variables in multivariate analysis, the level of knowledge had the association with attitude. Particularly, poor knowledge students were 2.26 times more likely to have negative attitude towards HIV/AIDS compared to those had good knowledge.
Conclusion: Knowledge was the most influencer factors of attitude toward HIV/AIDS. The midwifery education curricula may consider to have more specific information about HIV/AIDS in order to increase the student's knowledge.
Keywords: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), midwifery, knowledg
PREVALENCE OF SKIN DISEASES IN THE COASTAL AREA OF TELUK NIBUNG NORTH SUMATRA
Get PDFBackground: In an observational study of The Global Burden Disease stated skin diseases contributed to 1.79% of lost productive days worldwide due to itching, scratching, or secondary infections which accompanying. Skin diseases are among the three biggest diseases in Tanjung Balai City with 7.230 cases in 2017. Tanjung Balai is a coastal region on the East Coast of North Sumatra with Teluk Nibung as the largest Subdistrict which had characteristics of tropical climates, high density, the lack of basicsanitation and personal hygiene and it caused the population susceptible to skin diseases.The study is to find out the prevalence of skin diseases in Teluk Nibung2018.
Methods:This was an observational study using data sourced from surveillance of infectious diseases in Teluk Nibung Health Center regarding the 10 biggest diseases in the one Primary Health Care (Puskesmas) in 2018. The study was conducted in April 2019. Data were analyzeddescriptivelyusing univariate analysis with table and graphs of skin diseases frequency and distribution
Results: Skin disease wasthe third largest disease in Teluk Nibung Subdistrict with 2.208 casesin 2018. Disease trends increased throughout 2018 with significantly increased in May. The proportion of skin diseases wasbigger among the female group, which is 56%. The environmental conditions in Teluk Nibung reflected coastal areas with high-density population, unhealthy settlement conditions, and the lack of basic sanitation and personal hygiene.
Conclusions:Skin Disease is still a major health problem in Teluk Nibung due to the climate, weather, and the lack of environmental health factor. It needsfor researchers conducted research on skin diseases related to basic sanitation, personal hygiene among society in the coastal area and stakeholders need to create policy improved health environment.
Keywords: Skin disease, coastal area, North Sumatr
THE STANDARDS OF MEDICAL CARE WITH SELF CARE FOR DIABETES MELLITUS OUTPATIENTS
Get PDFBackground: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease that will be carried for life. DM management requires the participation of doctors, nurses, nutritionists, and other health workers. Based on this, Diabetes mellitus (DM) requires awareness, self care and collaboration from all health workers. The awareness, self care and collaboration of health workers on the importance of carrying out two-way services in patients with diabetes mellitus are the supporting forces in the DM case control program according to the standard of medical care. This study is to find out the standard of medical care with self care for diabetes mellitus outpatients.
Methods: A systematic review through an article review to find out the standard of medical care with self care for diabetes mellitus outpatients. The inclusion criteria for the articles used were diabetes mellitus outpatients self care, while the exclusion criteria were abstract articles, articles that did not use English and the non full text articles. Article search is limited to articles in English accessed from internet searches from databases, namely: NCBI and Knowledge E with the keyword standard medical care, self care, and diabetes mellitus.
Results: Based on the 7 articles with the same title, the screening was carried out according to the criteria for inclusion and exclusion, obtained 5 articles for further review. Self care in diabetes is a series of skills that are very important to improve the effectiveness of self management in diabetes awareness of the patient itself and collaboration with health workers. Nurses deal with collaborative problems both between health workers and patients by using doctor's provisions and prescribed interventions, to minimize complications from the occurrence.
Conclusion: One of the most factor that need to be improved to decreased the case of DM is how to maintain the self care of DM outpatients. It is very important because the self care is helping the outpatient with DM to maintain their own health. Because of that, the important recommendation for DM outpatient is to maintain and increasing their standard of medical care with self care.
Keywords: the standard of medical care, diabetes mellitus, self car
REDUCED LENGTH OF STAY IN CHILDREN WITH DIARRHEA FOLLOWING IMPLEMENTATION OF CLINICAL PATHWAY
Get PDFBackground: Diarrhea or Acute Gastroenteritis (AGE) is a dissease that common found in toddlers at emergecy room. The complication of diarrhea such as dehydration may go undetected by parents will affect the treatment and length of stay in the hospital. Decreasing the length of stay in the hospital can be done by implementing clinical pathways. This studyaims to examine the effect of implementing clinical pathways on length of stay in children with diarrhea.
Methods: This study was a systematic review that used PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis) guidelines. Data obtained from Electronic databases Proquest and Scopus that published between 2009-2019 and used English. By using keywords such as clinical pathway, gastroenteritis, and length of stay to find the relevant articles.
Results: The search found 610 studies, of which 6 studies were included in the systematic review. These studies conducted majority in USA and 1 study in Australia. Analysis of the studies found out that implemented clinical pathway can decrease length of stay 0.4 days (95% CI 0.04 to 0.7, p <0.01). The decreased of length of stay can increased 2.5% (CI 0.25% to 4.38%) used of medical beds then the bed can be more effective and used by other patients.
Conclusion: Implementing clinical pathway in the treatment process of diarrhea towards children not only reduce the length of stay in hospital but also useful in providing patient diagnosed and reduce the bed use per day and year.
Keywords: Clinical Pathway, Diarrhea, Gastroenteritis, Pediatri