Introduction: The interactive web-based, blended with tri-axial accelerometer by smartphone Apps, have the potential to help university students adopt and maintain a physically active lifestyle.The purposes of this text was to evaluated a gamification base for International Indonesia students to determine the impacts of a program building with psychosocial base to increase the exercise efficacy to attain a recommended level of physical activity. Methods: A non-equivalent control group with pre and posttest design conducted in 86-Indonesian international students with a time cluster randomize to avoid information contamination between groups. The intervention group received a Social Cognitive Theory skill-building by web-based game with team competition for 10-week program. Outcomes include physical activity, health outcomes, and cardiopulmonary fitness. ANCOVA and McNemar X2 test was adopted to test pre- and post-outcome effects. Results: The intervention group recorded more steps/day than those in the control (p <0.001, eta = 0.522), more distance (p <0.001, eta = 0.521), greater calories consumption (p <0.001, eta = 0.419), more longer (time) (p <0.001, eta = 0.217), more physical fitness (p <0.001, eta = 0.168), lower body weight (p <0.002, eta = 0.131), lower BMI (p <0.001, eta = 0.149), and lower systolic blood pressure (p <0.007, eta = 0.103). Conclusions: Web-based game with group competition programs can successfully increase physical activity among international university students.The results could serve as a good approach for health professionals to design an effective program toachieve recommended levels of physical activity and the physical fitness.
Data Dinas Kesehatan Bandung Barat tahun 2016 angka kematian ibu mengalami peningkatan yaitu 25 ibu. Peran kader penting dalam meningkatkan pengetahuan ibu hamil untuk mencapai derajat kesehatan yang optimal. Studi pendahuluan dilakukan dengan wawancara didapatkan 8 ibu hamil yang tidak mengetahui kehamilan risiko tinggi serta belum mendapatkan penyuluhan khusus mengenai bahaya kehamilan risiko tinggi oleh kader kesehatan. Tujuan penelitian ini mengetahui hubungan peran kader dengan pengetahuan tentang kehamilan risiko tinggi pada ibu hamil di 10 RW Desa Cimanggu. Peran Kader adalah perilaku yang dilakukan kader secara aktif dalam membantu masyarakat untuk menangani masalah kesehatan. Pengetahuan merupakan hasil tahu dan ini terjadi setelah orang mengadakan penginderaan terhadap suatu obyek tertentu. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif, desain deskriptif korelasi, melalui pendekatan cross-sectional. Pengambilan sampel secara total sampel didapatkan 179 responden. Analisis univariat menunjukkan lebih dari setengah peran kader aktif (58,1%) dan lebih dari setengah pengetahuan ibu hamil baik (62,6%). Analisis bivariat menggunakan uji chi-square menunjukkan ada hubungan peran kader dengan pengetahuan kehamilan risiko tinggi pada ibu hamil (p-value =0.030). Saran kepada kader dan petugas Puskesmas Ngamprah yaitu sebulan sekali melakukan penyuluhan dengan topik yang menarik seputar kehamilan khususnya kehamilan risiko tinggi dengan memberikan leaflet atapun poster saat penyuluhan.
The COVID-19 disease is still unclear, including the long-term impact on its survivors. The further impact of survivors of COVID-19 or long covid is currently being studied by scientists worldwide. The phenomenon about the complaints of COVID-19 survivors that occurred during the pandemic varied greatly. The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of long covid sufferers which include various symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue, cough, headache, joint pain, muscle pain, difficulty thinking, anxiety, fever, stress, and chest palpitations. This research method is quantitative with descriptive design, where data collection using accidental sampling technique is obtained by 85 respondents participating in this study. This study used a questionnaire as a data collection tool and the data were analysed univariately by presenting the variable frequency distribution. The results showed that the number of patients with long covid symptoms who showed the most symptoms was fatigue (83.5%). The researcher suggests that further researchers examine the characteristics of other long covid and the direct impact on COVID-19 survivors with a larger population with different variables
Anxiety is a psychological problem often found in children after the flood. Anxiety experienced can interfere with psychological well-being and academic achievement. The study aimed to determine the prevalence of anxiety levels in junior high school students in flood-prone areas. This study uses quantitative methods and descriptive design with a cross-sectional approach Samples were taken using a total sampling technique of 100 junior high school students living in flood-prone areas. Data were collected using the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders. The results showed that the average age of the respondents was 13.43 years, the standard deviation was 0.756, the minimum age was 12 years, and the maximum period was 16 years. A total of 66.0% of respondents are female. Anxiety descriptions of respondents: 73.0% experienced anxiety disorders, with criteria: generalized anxiety disorder 43%, panic or somatic disorders 54%, separation anxiety 81%, social anxiety 48% and school avoidance 19.0%. Junior high school students who live in flood-prone areas with repeated floods experience anxiety. Based on the study's results, the recommendations require cooperation between counselling teachers and primary health care nurses in charge of school health efforts to screen the psychological health of adolescents affected by floods and provide psychological interventions.
Introduction: The knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) in response to Covid-19 have not been measured previously in nursing institutions, which could be crucial to preventing a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia. This study examined the KAP for Covid-19 among Indonesian nursing students during the rapid increase period. Methods: An online-based cross-sectional design recruited nursing students using the authors’ networks with lecturers and nursing institutions in Indonesia. After obtaining their consent, the participants completed an online survey to assess their socio-demographic details, habits, family history of chronic diseases, and KAP in response to Covid-19. Simple descriptive through to complex analyses and multivariate regression were carried out using SPSS 17. Results: There were a total of 492 participants; 84.4% were female, most had a Bachelor’s degree (71.3%) and the mean age was 23.9 years old. The majority had never smoked (94.3%), drank warm water everyday (61.6%), exercised (50.6%), did not have hypertension (96.3%), had no family history of select conditions (79.9%) and had not been diagnosed with diabetes (99.4%). The majority of participants (79.3%) had good knowledge, where the mean for attitude was 2.05 (SD=0.30) and the result for practices was 2.19 (SD=0.42). Multiple linear regression showed that males who were older were associated with a higher level of knowledge. Conclusion: Our results found that the nursing students had good KAP scores regarding Covid-19. The development of effective health education programs to uphold their optimistic attitude and to maintain their good practices is needed.
Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) incidents in private hospitals in Bandung reached 0.11 % -1.03 %. HAP affects the quality of hospital services related to patient safety. One of the methods used for socializing implementation of HAP prevention was the expository method means learning method that is directly implemented to maintain contact between the speaker and audience. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the expository method of education on HAP bundles on the implementation of HAP prevention in the adult inpatient units. The study was designed by pre-experimental design one group pretest-posttest. A total of 16 associate nurses were part of the research using the purposive sampling technique in the adult inpatient units. The variable in the study was the implementation of HAP prevention which was measured by using an observation sheet. Wilcoxon tests were used to compare the scores between pretest-posttest. The researched result was P-value 0.000 (P-value < α 0.05), meaning the expository method of education on HAP bundle affected the implementation of HAP prevention in the adult inpatient unit. Suggestions derived from this study are to advise the infection prevention and control committee to implement the expository method in socializing bundles to prevent infections categorized as HAIs to health workers and to perform a regular evaluation.
The data found that female sex workers with a lifespan of 20 to 30 years say do not use condoms during sexual intercourse and do not believe that condoms can prevent sexually transmitted diseases. Behaviors of using condoms among female sex workers can be seen with a health belief approach. This study aims to determine the relationship of sociodemographic characteristics and health beliefs in condom use among female sex workers. Health belief is a concept that expresses the reason of the individual willingness to do healthy behaviors. This study used cross sectional design in 60 female sex workers. Sociodemographic data analysis using frequency distribution, bivariate analysis using Chi-square test. The results show 70.0% of respondents classified as early adulthood, 53.3% respondents had primary education, 65.0% respondents had low an income, 68.3% respondents were married, and 55. 0% of respondents have a low health belief of condom use. Based on statistical analysis showed that there was no significant relationship between age and income with the health belief of condom use (p = <0.05). The researcher give an agency to provide counseling care.
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