Background: Obesity has been one of the most concerning world-wide health problems due to its increase in number every year. In order to raise public awareness, direct face-to-face education is one of the methods that can be implemented. Ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and government's countermeasures, however, limit offline activities, driving people to use online educational platforms instead, which has not been explored as much. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact towards knowledges, attitudes and practices of productive age-population after receiving virtual education regarding obesity. Methods:A quasi-experimental study was conducted to a group of productive-age-population in Surabaya, Indonesia.The population received an intervention through virtual education, and results were collected using a questionnaire, comparing the pre-test to the post-test results.Results: Results from 19 participants who met the eligibility criteria were analysed using paired t-test for knowledge and Wilcoxon signed-rank test for attitude and practice. Despite no significant differences in knowledge and attitude domains (p = 0.077; p = 0.640), the result shows a significant increase in the attitude domain (p = 0.038) after intervention. Conclusion:This study showed an improvement of attitude regarding obesity after receiving online education. However, the results were not the same in knowledge and practice domains. Therefore, further studies regarding the impact of online education method are necessary to confirm the current findings.
Background: As part of the United Nations, Indonesia also aims to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Some of these targets are to lower the neonatal mortality rate (NMR) to 12/1000 live births and to eliminate all preventable underfive deaths. In 2019, Indonesia is on track to meeting the SDGs with an NMR of 12.4/1000 live births. Also in 2019, 50% of all under-five deaths occurred in the neonatal period and 80% of all neonatal deaths occurred during the early neonatal period (first 7 days of life). This study aims to present the profile of early neonatal mortality cases to better understand the causes and factors surrounding it. Methods:This retrospective descriptive study used data from the medical record of Dr. Soetomo General Hospital from 2019 to 2020. This study used total sampling and got a total of 296 subjects. Results:The main causes of early neonatal mortality are sepsis (27%), congenital anomaly (19%), hyaline membrane disease (19%), and perinatal asphyxia (15%). Most subjects were found male (57%), domicile in East Java outside Surabaya (49%), born < 28 weeks (29%) with low birth weight, singleton (87%), inpatient (77%), and born with c-section (57%).Most mothers were found aged 20-40 years old (85%), graduated high school (32%), and were on their first pregnancy (31%). Conclusion:The findings in this study are similar to previous studies, except for the age of death. Further studies are needed to better understand the correlation between factors presented in this study and early neonatal mortality.
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