The elderly and their caregivers are at higher risk from Coronavirus Disease-2019, particularly for elderly with chronic health conditions. To prevent the transmission of the virus, those elderly issued strict physical distance, restricting most interactions between the elderly and their caregivers. On the other side, caregivers can serve as crucial and trusted partners in the elderly’s care to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Hence, this study aims to analyze the knowledge, attitudes, practices (KAP), and the role of caregivers in providing services to the elderly during the outbreaks. A descriptive quantitative study was conducted from May to June 2020. The survey was utilizing Google Forms in four cities in Indonesia. A total of 317 out of 400 participants had completed the survey. The knowledge of the COVID-19 score was 79.50%, attitude 92.11%, and practice 90.54%. The caregivers’ role in protecting the elderly from COVID’s infection was about 98.42%. They could continue their routine activities during physical distancing 84.54%, treated elderly by not going to the hospital (60.04%), not visited any crowded place, wore masks and washed their hand after activity (87.38%). They agreed that government would finally successfully control COVID-19 (90.22%). This study concluded that the knowledge, attitude, practice and role of caregivers on COVID-19 effectively prevents the caregivers neglecting the elderly during the COVID-19 outbreak. Future information on elderly care need to consider not just the risks of the virus, but also the healthy lifestyle.
The disruption era that initiated the 4.0 revolution has caused some types of jobs and professions in Indonesia disappear, replaced by machines/applications with artificial intelligence technology. These conditions force universities to change the orientation of producing ready-to-work human resources, to produce human resources ready to create jobs for themselves and others. Therefore, the urgent change is on the curriculum and its implementation through learning strategies. This paper is a development of entrepreneurship learning concept in university with system approach. The study used is explanatory, with the aim of inspiring the role of university management to provide a conducive academic atmosphere to develop the entrepreneurial spirit of students and lecturers. Entrepreneurship courses are made into compulsory subjects with learning achievements relevant to the profile of graduates in each course. The study materials are arranged referring to the learning achievement, with emphasis on the learning experience that is able to build entrepreneurial mentality such as: 1) preneur tour, 2) expo, 3) collaboration, 4) success story, and 5) organization. Learning strategy using student centered learning approach, by utilizing information and communication technology. Support system required from university management is academic regulation, expo facility, and environment preneur. Evaluate learning by assessing output. Conclusion: the implementation of entrepreneurial learning requires adequate means to support the learning process, and study materials should be updated according to changing circumstances.
ANALYSIS OF COMMERCIAL SEX WORKERS BEHAVIOR IN UTILIZING HEALTH SERVICES IN LOCALITATION DISTRICT OF SEMARANGABSTRACT Sexually transmitted infections are diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites, or fungi that are transmitted from one person to another through sexual contact or relationship. Most sufferers in Indonesia are those of productive age aged 20-39 years. In Indonesia the number of cases of STIs with enforcement of diagnoses based on the syndrome approach and laboratory examination according to the highest risk group were female sex workers with a total of 8,765 cases. Commercial sex workers are at risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases. STIs can increase the risk of contracting HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) infection, making them have the opportunity to get STIs with their jobs serving many different customers. This study aims to analyze the behavior of commercial sex workers in utilizing health services in Tegal Panas Localization.The research design used was descriptive qualitative. The subjects in this study were six commercial sex workers and three key informants (Health and Pimps). The object in this study is the behavior of sex workers in utilizing health services. The methods in this study were observation, in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussion conducted at Tegal Panas Localization using data analysis, namely content analysis and data reduction.Knowledge of sex workers such as signs of symptoms and types of STIs is still lacking, but is good enough in terms of prevention and treatment of STIs, most of them protect themselves by taking antibiotics and washing genitals with antiseptic. The use of condoms is based on agreements with customers and health services that have not been utilized by all existing commercial sex workers in Localization. Keyword : Sex Workers, Behavior, STIs
Elderly women with knee osteoarthritis have higher symptoms, more pain, and more functional loss related to quality of life (27.5%) than elderly men (21.8%). The purpose of this study to examine the association of functional capacity and quality of life of elderly women with knee osteoarthritis. Type of analytic survey research using cross sectional design. The population in this study were all elderly women osteoarthritis (age> 45 years) in Bekasi City General Hospital as many as 80 elderly women by total population. Data was collected by the primary data through interviews using a questionnaire. Data analysis with univariate and bivariate. The average score obtained is 42.93% for quality of life, which means they have a poor quality of life. The results of bivariate analysis showed that the correlation between the Osteoarthritis Index and quality of life was r = -0.601 (p value <0.05) and the correlation between Functional Capacity (Activity od Daily Living; Instrument Activity of Daily Living; and Social Mental Activity) with Quality of Life -as equal to r = 0.649; 0.792; 0.607 (p value <0.05). In conclusion, there is a significant relationship between the Osteoarthritis Index and functional capacity with quality of life in elderly women with knee osteoarthritis at the Bekasi City General Hospital in 2016. Keywords: Osteoarthritis, Functional Capacity, Quality of Life, Elderly Health
Latah adalah suatu perilaku menyimpang yang bisa diderita oleh lansia. Perilaku menyimpang ini mengakibatkan sesuatu yang ingin disampaikan tidak dapat tersampaikan dengan baik , sehingga mengakibatkan lansia yang mengalami latah menjadi cemas, malu dan stress berakibat kepada kesehatan fisik dan mental lansia tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh informasi tentang penanganan latah pada lansia dengan metode reading backward di wilayah kecamatan Makasar Jakarta Timur. Menggunakan disain penelitian action research dengan pendekatan kualitatif, tehnik pengumpulan data melalui wawancara mendalam, observasi partisipan, telaah dokumen, dan focus group discussion pada 4 (empat) subjek utama dan 6 (enam) subjek kunci . Analisis data menggunakan metode Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) dengan hasil wawancara ditranskrip melalui teknik verbatim. Hasil penelitian ini didapat gambaran jenis kelatahan pada lansia yang paling menonjol adalah koprolalia (bicara kata-kata tabu), seperti menyebutkan alat kelamin (laki-laki) selain ada juga jenis kelatahan lainnya, seperti echolalia, ekopraksia dan automatic abodience. Jenis kelatahan yang dialami seorang lansia bisa lebih dari satu jenis. Faktor penyebab lansia menjadi latah karena faktor mimpi melihat alat kelamin yang cukup banyak disekitarnya, dan faktor lainnya seperti adanya faktor pemberontakan, faktor pengkondisian dan faktor pengalaman. Dukungan keluarga diperlukan dengan memberi rasa aman dan lingkungan sekitar dapat mengurangi kelatahan pada lansia, tidak mengganggu lansia serta memberi stimulus kepada lansia latah dan para lansia yang mengalami kelatahan. Lansia latah yang menjadi subjek penelitian ini bekerja sebagai buruh cuci, pedagang dan pengasuh anak. Metode reading backward bisa digunakan untuk meningkatkan konsentrasi yang dapat mengurangi kelatahan.
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