Mapping Integration of Sustainable Development Goals for Engineering Programmes at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)

The International Islamic University Malaysia embarked on the initiative to incorporate the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in its curriculum in 2018 with the aim of concretizing its vision and mission statements. The main objective of this study is to examine the integration of SDGs in the curriculum of the Kulliyah (Faculty) of Engineering. Based on 9 Engineering programmes offered by the Kulliyyah (Faculty), students are required to register for 57 to 61 courses or 134 to 139 credits in order to graduate. All 9 Engineering programmes have incorporated 330 contents related to the 17 SDGs. The findings of the study indicate that BEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering Programme has the most number of SDGs contents with 55 occurrences of 39%, followed by BEng (Hons) Aerospace Engineering Programme with 51 (36%) and BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering Programme with 49.occurance or 13%. As far as specific SDGs are concerned, a total of 116 (35.1%) of the 330 SDGs activities are associated with SDG 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, followed SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities (59 occurrences or 17.9%), and SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production (39 occurrences or 11.8%)

Determining Behavior to Uptake and Its Predictors toward Cervical Cancer Screening among Women: A Case-Control Multistage Study

Background: Cervical cancer is a primary cause of mortality cancer among Indonesian women. Notwithstanding these threats, cervical cancer screening services have low uptake. Additionally, there was a lack of multistage case-control studies regarding positive behavior and its determinants for cervical cancer screening. Purpose: This study was to ascertain the uptake behavior and its predictors toward cervical cancer screening. Methods: A case-control study was conducted in Kediri with a sample size of 410 using multistage random sampling (ratio 1:1) from nine community health services and data were collected between June 11 to September 18, 2019. Data were obtained through questionnaires and assessed using Chi-square, Independent t-test, and multiple logistic regression with adjusted odds ratio (AOR). Results: Behavior of cervical cancer screening was related to knowledge (AOR= 1.61), husband support (AOR= 1.38), social support (AOR= 5.03), external motivation (AOR= 1.24), internal motivation (AOR= 1.37), perceived susceptibility (AOR= 1.49), perceived barrier (AOR= 0.74), perceived benefit (AOR= 0.73), perceived severity (AOR= 1.36), self-efficacy (AOR= 1.30), perceived threat (AOR= 1.26), and intention to screening (AOR= 3.06) with p value <0.05 after adjusting covariate factors. Conclusion: Knowledge, husband and social support, external and internal motivation, all domains of health belief, and intention to uptake screening were found to be strongly associated with behavior to uptake cervical cancer screening