Pengaruh Penyuluhan Terhadap Peningkatan Pengetahuan Pasien Tentang Pencegahan Kekambuhan Hipertensi: Penelitian Pra Eksperimen Di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Klampis Ngasem Surabaya

Hypertension patients have a high risk of recurrence, whenever or wherever they are. The recurrence can be prevented by having a healthy behavior, such as reducing high salt and lipid consumption, preventing stress, regular exercise, and increasing the consumption of vegetables and fruit. This healthy behavior is influenced by several factors, including knowledge. A lack of knowledge may rise the risk of hypertension. Promotion is one of some methods to improve the patients knowledge. This study was undertaken to fmd the influence of promotion on the patiens knowledge on the prevention of hypertension recurrence in the working area of Klampis Ngasem Community Health Center, Surabaya. This study used pre-experimental (one group pre and post-test) design. Population was all primary hypertension patiens visiting Klampis Ngasem Community Health Center. Sampels consisted of 20 individuals, taken by means of purposive sampling. The independent variable was promotion, and the dependent variable was patients knowledge. Data collection were carried out using questionnaire~ and analyzed with wilcoxon sign rank test at significance level of p=O.OS. Result revealed significance level of p=O.OOO. This indicated that promotion has a significant influence on the improvement of knowledge on the prevention of hypertension recurrence

A Cultural Approach (Socio Demography) in Preventing Covid-19 Disease in the Family

Handling the Covid-19 pandemic can be assisted by a cultural approach as disease and culture are two related things, disease is often caused by culture or in other words, disease can occur due to certain cultures that exist in social life. In addition, the disease can have a socio-cultural effect. Thus, socio-cultural factors generally affect efforts to control and prevent Covid-19 disease. In addition, the involvement of the family in the control and prevention of Covid-19 is very important, in addition to controlling the transmission, it also stabilizes the control of the spread of the virus. The aim of this study was to identify the influence of culture on the prevention of Covid-19 in the family. This study used an associative analytical design through a transversal approach. The population consisted of all families affected by the Covid-19 case in South Kalimantan. Bivariate data were analyzed with chi-squared and multivariate with multiple logistic regression. There was a relationship between sex, education, marriage, occupation, income and distance from health services with the prevention of covid 19 in the family (ρ <0.05), and there is a shared influence between gender, education, marriage and work on the prevention of covid 19 in the family (ρ <0.05). It is up to the community to redouble its efforts to prevent covid 19 disease in the family, so it is necessary to take a cultural approach to prevent covid 19 in the family

Development of Blood Stock Decision Supporting System in the Blood Transfusion Unit of PMI Banjar District Branch, South Kalimantan, to Support Blood Stock Planning

Blood transfusion unit of Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) Banjar district branch provided service Togovernment and private hospitals and also health clinics in the district of Banjar and severalsurrounding districts/cities. Transfusion unit of PMI Banjar district branch had not utilized computerbase information system. Data input was still done by filling the forms, data was written in theregistration books, data management process was done by counting manually using calculator,Data storage was still mixed with other data, data searching required longer time (> 5 minutes),prediction/estimation had not been done in the blood requirement planning.The objective of this study was to develop blood stock decision supporting system in the bloodtransfusion unit of PMI Banjar district branch, South Kalimantan, to support blood stock planning.Development of the system was based on FAST (Framework for the Application of System Thinking)steps. This study was a qualitative research. Study variables were the ease of access, validity,completeness and appropriateness. The study object was a blood stock decision supporting systemin the transfusion unit of PMI Banjar district branch to support blood stock planning and users.The study subject was the researcher herself/himself. Study instrument used in this study was interviewguideline and observation forms. Content analysis was used to analyze the data.The result of the study found a system problem on the performance, economic, control efficiencyand service. The user needs for data input, data management process and output was known. Basicdata system design was obtained, blood requirement prediction model was available, and textmessaging (SMS) gateway model for output of blood stock information for external user wasavailable. The quality of information was improving such as improvement in the ease of obtaininginformation; the produced information was more complete, more appropriate and more accurate.Suggestions for blood transfusion unit of PMI Banjar district branch are it is better to apply thesystem and conducting socialization to the community to use SMS in order to obtain information onthe blood stock through both leaflet and printing or electronic media. It is important to develop anapplication to manage the donors via SMS alert to remind their next giving blood donation schedule,to give thank you and awards to the donors

Determinant Factors Related To Family Utilization Of Health Services

Health is one of the important elements in human life, so that the utilization of health services is an important factor in determining health. In fact, the utilization of health services has been recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a primary health concept. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors related to the utilization of health services by families. This research method uses an analytic observational research design/analytic survey with a cross sectional approach. The sampling technique uses simple random sampling with a total sample of 61 respondents. Bivariate analysis to determine the relationship of each factor using the chi-square test. The results showed that there was no relationship between age and family utilization of health services (p>0.05), there was a relationship between education level and family utilization of health services (p0.05), and there is no relationship between distance (access) and utilization of health services by the family (p>0.05). In this way, families can take advantage of the nearest health service when they are sick, so that they can find out what disease they are suffering from and get the right treatment/care