BACKGROUND: Many researchers have been indicated that premature hair greying (PHG) may be associated with the multifactorial problem include genetic, trace elements deficiencies and some medical problems such as metabolic disorders. However, the risk factors for premature hair greying are not well known for young adult.
AIM: This study aimed to determine the risk factors of hair greying in young adult.
METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study recruited 100 respondents of a college student at the Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) with the inclusion criteria: male, less than 25 years old with hair greying and not have skin pigmentation disorders. The questionnaires about greying of hair status, family history of greying and history of family disease were collected by self-report.
RESULTS: The age of participants in this study was 20.09 ± 2.01 years (mean ± SD). The mean onset of PHG was 15.23 ± 3.52 years (range: 9 – 22 years). The family history of PHG was 39% with paternal in 262%; maternal in 10%% and both parents in 3%. There was a significant difference between several grey hairs with a family history of PHG P = 0.045. The family history with metabolic disorders; hypertension was 29%, obesity was 25%, and diabetes Mellitus (DM) was 15%. Limitations: Owing to the use of questionnaires, the possibility of recall bias exists. The young female was not evaluated in this study.
CONCLUSION: The family history of PHG and onset of greying are important risk factors associated with PHG of a young adult.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is one of the most prevalent sexually transmitted diseases among women aged < 35 years worldwide. Recent studies have suggested that the vaginal microenvironment influenced by bacterial infection poses for high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) infection and cervical carcinogenesis. Female sex workers (FSWs) are a population susceptible to acquire Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), as well as transmitting the virus to others. The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between Mycoplasma/Ureaplasma infections and HPV infection among female sex workers. A total of 70 female sex workers of reproductive age were recruited from various location in Medan, Indonesia in 2018. Detection of Mycoplasma/Ureaplasma infections and HPV infection were obtained from PCR assessment. The results of this study showed that no correlation significant between Mycoplasma hominis/Ureaplasma urealyticum infection and HPV infection.
The important issue that causes medical error is poor communication between professions in providing health services, ineffective teamwork collaboration, and unintegrated health services. The World Health Organization (WHO) triger the Interprofessional Education learning model as an integrated education system in health science students.The purpose of this study is to assess the teamwork formed after the IPE learning was applied to health science students at the professional level at the Universitas Sumatera Utara. Method. This research is a pre and post test design that was carried out by IPE learning in the area of Puskesmas Tuntungan Medan. The sample size is 20 students consisting of students from the faculty of medicine, nursing, pharmacy and public health at Universitas Sumatera Utara. The assessment of teamwork using the Team Work Score (TWS) questionnaire. Data analysis uses dependent t test.The results of this study indicate that the level of teamwork increases after IPE learning. There is a relationship between IPE learning and increased leadership skills, team structure, situation monitoring, group support, and communication (p<0.05). There is an increase in teamwork, after the application of IPE learning to health science students.
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