This study aimed at analysing junior high school students’ creative thinking skills in biology learning. Creative thinking skills were measured by providing 5 open-ended essays with the indicators of fluency, flexibility, original thinking, and elaboration thinking. The present study used descriptive survey method to obtain quantitative data without special treatment. The research participants were 189 eight-grade students registered in nine public junior high schools in Bangkalan Regency. The results showed that the students’ creative thinking skills were still low at all indicators of creative thinking skills and included in an uncreative category, especially in detailing and producing innovations as well as troubleshooting problems using various approaches. However, their fluency got the best score compared to other indicators even though the classical passing grade was not achieved.
<p class="AbstractNormal"><strong><em><span lang="EN-ID">Introduction</span>: </em></strong><em>Height affected by various factor. One factor that can affect female’s height is menarcheal age. Sexual hormone in female’s body will be activated at menarche and it will stimulate the closure of epiphyseal plate. Final height in female with late menarche is higher than female with early menarche. While in goiter endemic areas with Iodine Deficiency Disorder especially in mountain area, it has earlier menarcheal age than normal female that live in non goiter endemic area. This study aimed to analyze the relationship between age at menarche and height endemic goiter.</em></p><p class="AbstractNormal"><strong><em>Method</em></strong><em>s: This study was an observational study with cross-sectional design. It was held in the goiter endemic Ngargoyoso, Karanganyar. Samples of women aged over 20 years with upright posture that live in Ngargoyoso were obtained by simple random sampling, then measuring the height using statometer and obtaining menarcheal age by questioner. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation test (α = 0.05), which had previously been tested for normality by Kolmogorov Smirnov.</em></p><p class="AbstractNormal"><strong><em>Results: </em></strong><em>The mean age of menarche sample was 13.38 years with the lowest age of 11 years and the highest age of 18 years. While the average height was 156.8 cm samples with the lowest height was 139 cm and the highest was 168 cm. Pearson correlation test results showed that height was significantly associated with age at menarche woman endemic goiter (p = 0.001).</em></p><p class="AbstractNormal"><strong><em>Conclusions: </em></strong><em>Age of menarche associated with height in an endemic goiter area.<br />The earlier age of menarche will affect the final height of the woman.</em></p><p class="Keywords"> </p>
The purpose of this narrative study was to explore how an international PhD student-mother, who has a young child, negotiated and coped with the challenges to complete her studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Multiple semi-structured interviews were adopted to collect narrative data. Anchored in a thematic analysis, qualitative data showed that the participant encountered such challenges as the skills of managing academic time and activities, difficulty in focusing on studying, worries about family conditions in Indonesia and financial needs. We concluded that physical, mental and spiritual strengths of an individual derived from family and community support play a pivotal role in thinking of, managing, and coping with various challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Introduction: Pediatric acupuncture is an interesting subject to study along with strengthening the current development of acupuncture therapy. Not only for adults, but acupuncture is also safe for children. There have been many studies on acupuncture, but publications related to acupuncture for children are still very few compared to adults. The purpose of this study is to visually map and guide future research on Pediatric acupuncture based on bibliometric analysis. Method: We conducted this study from September 16 to 19, 2022. Publications regarding pediatric acupuncture were extracted from the Scopus database. The search strategy included two keywords: (ACUPUNCTURE)*(PEDIATRIC). The final result was acquired by searching those keywords without limitation because the number of articles was less than 1000. We used VOSviewer and bibliometric indicators to generate a maps-based data network from all keywords-related studies showing association among journals, countries, publication frequency, authors, and citations. Keywords were used to infer pediatric acupuncture. A total of 669 documents related to pediatric acupuncture were retrieved. This includes 432 articles, 176 reviews, and 16 conference papers. Results: A total of 10,918 citations have been recorded for all publications with an h-index count of 52. The first relevant study is dated on 1966. Since then, there has been a steady increase in total publications each year whereas 2021 as the most productive year with 53 publications. The Medical Acupuncture Journal (25) was the most prolific journal. The United States of America (298) and China (54) are the most productive country and institutions. The article entitled Clinical Practice Guideline: Allergic rhinitis by Seidman et al. (386) is the most cited reference. Conclusion: The benefit and potential of acupuncture for several diseases in pediatric patients are promising and no adverse side effects have been reported.
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