Hypertension is a major health problem throughout the world, including Indonesia. The use of traditional medicine as part of the treatment of hypertension is increasing in the lastKeywords: pattern of drug use, natural medicine, hypertension ABSTRAK Hipertensi merupakan masalah kesehatan utama di seluruh dunia, termasuk Indonesia. Penggunaan obat tradisional sebagai bagian dari pengobatan hipertensi semakin meningkat dalam dekade terakhir. Hal ini disebabkan adanya beberapa faktor, terutama harga obat tradisional yang dianggap lebih murah dengan efek samping yang dianggap lebih sedikit. Penelitian ini mencoba melihat pola penggunaan obat bahan alam sebagai terapi komplementer pada pasien hipertensi di Puskesmas. Penelitian merupakan studi deskriptif yang dilakukan di Puskesmas Sempaja Kota Samarinda pada periode September 2016, dengan mewawancarai 62 pasien hipertensi terkait penggunaan obat bahan alam. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan 70,9% pasien hipertensi di puskesmas juga menggunakan obat bahan alam. Seluruh pasien menggunakan obat bahan alam yang secara teori memang terbukti menurunkan tekanan darah. Namun demikian tidak ada obat bahan alam yang digunakan termasuk obat herbal terstandar atau fitofarmaka. Hanya 15,2% pasien yang menggunakan obat bahan alam yang sesuai dengan peraturan BPOM tentang kriteria jamu. Kesimpulan penelitian ini menunjukkan masih perlunya edukasi penggunaan obat bahan alam di masyarakat untuk penatalaksanaan hipertensi.Kata kunci: pola penggunaan obat, obat bahan alam, hipertensi

No abstract

Due to the rapid advancement of technology, teachers were forced to integrate technological equipment and method in educational strategies, for the main purpose of facilitating the learning experience. Accordingly, this study aimed to answer two main questions namely; 1) How can Zoom Meeting enhance high school students at Salatiga to gain success in ELT? 2) To what extent does use the Zoom Meeting as an asynchronous learning strategy affect the motivation of high school students at Salatiga? For that purpose, the researcher implemented an experimental design with a mixed approach to conduct the current study using a pre-test, and a post-test to measure the change in the levels of EFL learners’ English skills, the researcher also spread questionnaires to examine the attitude of the students towards the Zoom meeting. The participants of the current study were 60 high school students at Salatiga who were divided into two groups namely the control and experimental group. The findings indicated that zoom meeting enhanced EFL learners’ English skills and motivation Keywords: Zoom Meeting, Synchronous Learning Strategy, Zoom Meeting Learning

Dunia industri merupakan salah satu penyumbang kebisingan terbesar jika dibandingkan dengan beberapa sumber kebisingan lainnya. Hal ini mengakibatkan banyaknya kasus gangguan pendengaran akibat bising dikawasan perindustrian. PT X adalah sebuah industri manufaktur yang bergerak dalam bidang produksi pembuatan peralatan pengeboran minyak bumi dan gas alam yang melalui beberapa tahapan proses di beberapa bagian produksi yang tidak lepas dari bahaya kebisingan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan kebisingan dengan Hearing Loss dan stress kerja diarea kerja PT. X. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif dengan desain penelitian cross sectional. Pengambilan sampel menggunakan metode Proportionate Statied Random Sampling  yang berjumlah 38 orang. Analisis data menggunakan uji Chi Square dengan level signifikansi 0,05 (5%). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada hubungan yang signifikan antara kebisingan dengan Hearing Loss telinga kanan (p= 0,000), Hearing Loss telinga kiri (p= 0,007). Sedangkan stress kerja item ketaksaan peran (p= 0,309), konflik peran (p=0,459), beban berlebih kuantitatif (p= 0,730), beban berlebih kualitatif (p= 0,066) pengembangan karir (p= 0,730), tanggung jawab terhadap orang lain (p= 0,344) tidak berhubungan dengan kebisingan di area produksi PT. X. Disarankan pada pekerja agar menggunakan alat pelindung diri seperti earmuff maupun earplug pada saat bekerja dan selalu mengikuti prosedur yang ditetapkan perusahaan terkait manajemen kebisingan. Kata Kunci : Kebisingan, Hearing Loss, Stress Kerja.

Background. Smartphone is one of the most commonly used communication device compared to various other devices both in young and old generation. Excessive use of smartphones can cause health problems, one of them is Tenosynovitis De Quervain (TDQ). Purpose. An understanding of the relationship between the average duration of smartphone usage per day with TDQ incidence. Methods. This research is an analytic observational with cross sectional approach. The research samples were 153 students of the Medical Study Program at the Faculty of Medicine, Mulawarman University, taken using consecutive sampling technique. The data was analyzed using chi-square statistical test. Results. 86% of Mulawarman University Faculty of Medicine students use smartphones with a duration of ≥5 hours. 68% of Mulawarman University Faculty of Medicine students have positive TDQ results. The relationship of the average duration of smartphone use with TDQ events showed p = 0,000. Conclusion. There is a relationship between the average duration of smartphone usage with TDQ incidence.   Keywords : Usage duration, smartphone, tenosynovitis, de quervain

Background: Inflammation is a normal process in response to injury, but causes problems for the patient, including the appearance of pain, swelling, or fever. Anti-inflammatory agents generally used for those conditions, have several side effects to patients. Purpose: The objective of this research was to find alternative anti-inflammatory agents, especially from natural sources. Eleutherine bulbosa (Mill.) Urb. knew as “Bawang Dayak” belong to family Iridaceae is one of the natural sources for anti-inflammatory agents. This plant is known as traditional medicine in East Kalimantan and used as material in this research. Method: The experimental method of anti-inflammatory measurement using membrane stabilization activity for E. Bulbosa ethanol bulbs extracts. Result: The results showed that significant differences of EC50(p < 0.05) were achieved between indomethacin (26.39 ± 2.91) as the positive control with E. Bulbosa (52.87 ± 2.29). EC50 of E. bulbosa showed the potential anti-inflammatory activities with similar effectiveness to half indomethacin concentration. Conclusion: It could be concluded that E. bulbosa could be further developed as a new natural source of the anti-inflammatory agents.

Acne vulgaris is one of problem skin disease for adolescents and young adults. Acne vulgaris(AV) is a chronic inflammation of pilosebasea follicles with multifactorial causes and has clinicalmanifestations such as blackheads papules, pustules, nodules and cysts. Risk factor of acne vulgaris isobesity. Obesity usually happens along with peripheral hyperandrogen and can increase sebumproduction. Facial care consists of cleaning, moisturizer and sun protector and analyzed relation withseverity of acne vulgaris. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of gender, bodymass index and facial care to severity of acne vulgaris. This study was an observational analytic withcross sectional method and the sampling was chosen by purposive sampling. The minimum sample sizewas 59 subjects. Data from this study were obtained from measurement of body mass index anddiagnostic photos in acne prone subjects. The result of statistical tests showed that there was relationshipbetween sex with the severity of acne vulgaris with (p = 0.014) and severity of acne vulgaris having anopportunity 6 times greater in males than females. Body mass index and facial care have no relation tothe severity of acne vulgaris.

Introduction. Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection. On March 2, 2020, Indonesia announced the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection. East Kalimantan will play an important role as the new capital of Indonesia. There is attention to the preparedness of East Kalimantan to respond to COVID-19. We report the characteristics of COVID-19 fatality cases in here. Methods. We retrospectively analyzed the fatality cases of COVID-19 patients from the East Kalimantan Health Office information system. All patients were confirmed COVID-19 by RT-PCR examination. Results. By July 31, 2020, 31 fatality cases of patients had been identified as having confirmed COVID-19 in East Kalimantan. The mean age of the patients was 55.1 + 9.2 years. Most of the patients were men (22 [71.0%]) with age more than 60 years old (14 [45.2%]). Balikpapan has the highest number of COVID-19 fatality cases from all regencies. Hypertension was the most comorbidities in the fatality cases of COVID-19 patients in East Kalimantan. Discussion. Older age and comorbidities still contributed to the fatality cases of COVID-19 patients in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease were underlying conditions for increasing the risk of COVID-19 getting into a serious condition. Conclusion. Active surveillance for people older than 60 years old and having underlying diseases is needed for reducing the case fatality rate of COVID-19 in East Kalimantan. Keywords. Comorbidity, fatality cases, COVID-19, Indonesia.