Perception of Parents, Teachers, and Nutritionist on Childhood Obesity and Barriers to Healthy Behavior: a Phenomenological Study

The worldwide epidemic of childhood obesity is progressing at an alarming rate. Obesity in childhood at high risk of becoming obese in adulthood and potentially experience metabolic disease and degenerative disease in the future. Obesity is not just an individual problem. It is a population problem and should be tackled as such. Various factors causing obesity in children include children\u27s diet, level of physical activity, family factors, child psychological and genetic factors. This paper attempts to explore the problem more closely by conducting a qualitative study, the main objective of which is to determine barriers to a healthy lifestyle and variables that underlie overweight/obesity in children from their parents perspective. This research is a qualitative research with the phenomenological method. A total of 3 focus group discussions and 7 in-depth interviews were conducted, between July and October 2016, to explore parent\u27s, teacher\u27s, and nutritionist perceptions about underlying factors of their overweight/obesity and barriers to a healthy behavior

Progressive Muscle Relaxation Using Video AIDS Reduces Blood Pressure of Hypertension Patients

Progressive muscle relaxation using video is used hypertensive patients to conduct movement activities to reduce stress. Therefore, the muscles of the body are relax. Hypertension or high blood pressure is still a serious threat that affects the productivity of a person's life in NTB. The study was intended to determine the effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation using video aids to reduce blood pressure in hypertension patients. This research was conducted in the Work Area of Dasan Agung Public Health Center, Mataram City in May to September 2017. Quasi-experimental design of pre and post-test control group. The number of respondents was 60 people consisting of 30 controls and 30 interventions for sampling Random Sampling. Data analysis using T-test.  The results showed there were differences of changing in blood pressure of respondents who were given progressive muscle relaxation using video aids compared to those who did not use. Conclusion Progressive muscle relaxation with video ads decreases blood pressure in hypertension patients compared to those who did not