Background: Hypertension is one of the leading causes of death for cases of non-communicable diseases in Indonesia. Basic Health Research in 2018 by the ministry of health of the republic of Indonesia found the number of non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, stroke and diabetes mellitus has increased compared to revious research. The aim of this study was to determine the factors associated with the occurrence of hypertension in the Talaud Islands Regency. Methods: This is a survey research using cross sectional method, the instrument used is a questionnaire that has been tested for validity and reliability. The number of samples are 100 people with purposive sampling technique. Results: The results of the chi square analysis show that gender does not associate with the occurrence of hypertension (p value 0.641), age has no association with the occurrence of hypertension (p value 0.641), obesity and hypertension showed that there was a significant association (p value 0.033), family history and hypertension were associated (p value 0.033), no association between smoking and hypertension (p value 0.582), consumption of risky food do not have an association with the occurrence of hypertension (p value 0.612), there is no association between physical activity and the occurrence of hypertension (p value 0.641), alcohol consumtion and hypertension were associated (p value 0.024), stress has no association with the occurrence of hypertension (p value 0.083).Conclusions: Factors associated with hypertension in the Talaud Islands Regency are obesity, family history of hypertension and alcohol consumption.
Background: COVID-19 pandemic causes the emergence of rubbish indicated containing COVID-19 or usually called as infectious waste. The household waste sources related to COVID-19 prevention are such as ODP (people in observation) who had done self-quarantine and used APD (self protection equipment) such as mask and gloves. The purpose of this research is to find out the correlation between knowledge and attitude of janitor towards household infectious waste countermeasure during COVID-19 pandemic in Manado city 2020.Methods: This research was quantitative research-observational descriptive approach with cross sectional method. This research was conducted in 4 temporary shelters obtained in Singkil sub district, Bunaken sub district, Pall Dua sub district and Wanea sub district. The samples were selected by using total sampling technique. Total samples were 100 respondents. The research instrument was questionnaire. The analysis used Chi Square Test.Results: shows that the janitors’ knowledge is good already 53%, attitude 60%, and there is no correlation between knowledge and janitors’ attitude towards household infectious waste countermeasure during COVID-19 pandemic in Manado city.Conclusions: The management and countermeasure of household infectious waste is an important effort to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-12 (COVID-19). Tighter monitoring is necessary and also education/socialization of household infectious waste countermeasure is needed during COVID-19 pandemic either from the behavior side or the facilities used.
Background: Behavioral health determinants is the situation of someone who has one of the determining factors to determine their own behavior; predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling. Those factors have been materialized in Puskesmas Motoboi Kecil, Kotamobagu city in action, physical environment nor public figures where those factors can influence the effort in dengue fever control. The aim of this research generally is to get the illustration of behavioral health determinants for dengue fever control measures in Puskesmas Motoboi Kecil, Kotamobagu city.Methods: The method of this research was using qualitative research type. The data collection was done by deep interview with interview guidelines and also by recording tape. The data from interview was processed and analyzed and then presented in narrative text. The data validity checking was using the triangulation method.Results: The research result of the action of dengue fever control measures with the result of the deep interview that the people pay less attention to environmental health and healthy life style. Furthermore, control of the dengue fever would only be done when one of the people in Motoboi Kecil district got dengue fever while the community leaders or public figures only participated in the empowerment of the community health but not routinely.Conclusions: The conclusion of this research is that the behavioral of a person can influence in every effort in controlling dengue fever. To control their behavior, it needs the desire and awareness for individuals and groups to improve the healthy life style to be better.
Lack of information and knowledge from the youth students about sexually transmitted disease (STD) can lead to increment to the numbers of the sexually transmitted disease among the youth. SMP Negeri I Talawaan is one of the schools located in North Minahasa. Presenting the education or information related to sexual issues si still considered toboo and trigger pros-cons among the society in the village of Talawaan, Kecamatan dimembe. Thus, the information about the education and the risk of sexually transmitted disease is necessary to improve he knowledge of the students about STD so that the students can prevent STD in early stage. This is a quasi-experiment with One Group Pretest Posstest approach that have been held in August 2019. The sample used was a total of 78 students at SMP Negeri I Talawaan 7 th grade and 8 th grade. Data collecting on this research by using questionnaire. Knowledge level about the STD before the socialization which categorized as good knowledge category is 21 respondents amounted to (26.92%), fair knowledge category is 49 respondents (62.82%), and less knowledge category is 8 respondents (10.25%). Whereas upon receiving the socialization, the knowledge level improved where number of respondent in good knowledge category is 69 respondents (88.46%), fair knowledge category is 9 respondents (11.53%), in other words respondent with less knowledge category is none.
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