Objective: This study aimed to explain the nursing care of the elderly with impaired physical mobility through joint exercise intervention, such as performing the Muslim prayer movement or Salat. Methods:The quasi-experimental study examined the effect of Muslim prayer movement on elderly with impaired physical mobility. Muslim prayer movements were performed for 5 weeks, once a day, and the materials used were an MP3 player, a stopwatch, and a goniometer.Results: Evaluation using Berg Balance Test showed an increase in the score from 32 to 47. Conclusion:This intervention can be performed by the elderly five times a day to maintain joint mobility and balance. The nurses need to provide motivation to the elderly to pray five times a day to maintain their joint function.
Introduction: Saliva is important in maintaining the health of the oral environment. A reduction of the saliva flow by 40% to 50% will cause xerostomia. Xerostomia as the main complaint, experience by about 14%-46% of patients. The objective of this research is to find out the influence of green tea gargle to saliva flow rate in xerostomia patient. Materials and Methods: Green tea with the Latin name Camellia sinensis (L). Polyphenol compounds, catechins in this tea cause a bitter taste that can stimulate the central nervous system resulting in increased salivary secretion. Green tea weighing 3 grams, brewed with 20 ml of hot water an let to stand for 5 minutes then strained and used it for gargeling. The subjects of the study were female of Puskesmas Darussalam visitors. The sample was selected using purposive sampling method and they consisted of 20 people for gargling group of green tea and 20 for gargeling aquades. Saliva was obtained by spitting method. Results: The mean difference in salivary flow rate gargling the aquades was about 0.033350 ml / min, while the mean difference of salivary flow rate gargling the green tea was about 0.281750 ml/min. The statistical T test was unpaired, p = 0,000 difference in mean difference of salivary flow rate was significant, between treatment group and control group. Conclusion(s): The group with green tea gargeling was better in stimulating salivary flow rate.
Fungi are heterotrophic organisms that can find in many habitat likes soil rhizosphere, and insect larvae in the field. The purpose of this study was to determine the diversity of fungi in the soil rhizosphere of corn and Spodeptera frugiperda larvae that are attacked by fungi in the field. Sampling of soil and insects infested by fungi in this study was carried out in a corn cropping in Gedung Johor Sub-district, Medan Johor District, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. Isolation and identification were conducted at the Biology Laboratory, Universitas Negeri Medan. The results showed that the number of fungi found from the soil rhizosphere of corn plants was higher than from S. frugiperda larvae that were attacked by the fungus. There were 16 fungal isolates found from the soil rhizosphere of corn, namely: Penicillium (1 isolate), Trichoderma (2 isolates), Fusarium (3 isolates), Mucor (1 isolate), Aspergillus (3 isolates), and 6 isolates have not identified yet. Meanwhile, 9 fungal isolates found from S. frugiperda, consisting of 6 isolates from Aspergillus, and 3 other isolates have not been identified.
Endocrine and biological changes occur in postmenopausal women, the production of steroid sex hormones that affect the health of the oral cavity, with the reduction of all or part of estrogen resulting in xerostomia (dry mouth). The treatment of Xerostomia was carried out using local, mechanical and chemical stimulation. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of gargling of green tea steeping on salivary flow rates in postmenopausal women with xerostomia at Darussalam Public Health Center in Medan.This is an experimental study using the design of control group, pretest-posttest and the non-probability of purposive sampling. Fourty menopausal women with xerostomia were used as sample. The treatment group gargled with green tea steeping while the control group gargled with distilled water. Saliva was collected into the pots for three minutes before and after treatment by spitting method. The analytical test used was the paired T-test and the unpaired.The results showed that there was an increase in salivary flow rate with green tea brushing rinse by 0.281750 ml/min and with aquades rinsing by 0.03335 ml/min. Furthermore, there was an effect of gargling with green tea steeping, namely an increase in the flow rate of saliva and this research can be an alternative treatment to relieve xerostomia in menopausal women.The green tea gargling was better in stimulating salivary flow rate.
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