Advances in Health Sciences Research

Deficiencies in the social support system are most often expressed by parents who have a child with thalassemia. Parents need to be able to adapt to changes in children’s conditions. If parents do not get adequate social support there will be obstacles in the social interaction. In the end, this condition...

Stigma and discrimination in the community against people with HIV/AIDS caused by lack of understanding of HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS prevention and control programs are hampered by the stigma and discrimination in the community against people with HIV/AIDS. This study aims to determine the effect of characteristics...

Ergonomics is one of the factors that can provide comfort and safety for workers who are then able to increase company productivity. Neglecting ergonomic factors can cause the risk of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MsDs) that can damage tissues such as muscles, nerves, tendons, joints and cartilage. Based...

Treatment result for nasopharyngeal carcinoma has improved drastically due to introduction of chemotherapy and radiotherapy combination. However, regional failure is still a common finding which occurs to 3-10% patients. Local failure can be divided into 2, residual and recurrent disease. Residual or...

Hypertension is a disease where the systolic blood pressure is more than normal (>140 mmHg). The signs and symptoms that often appear area headaches due o increased cerebral vascular pressure and impaired oxygen supply to the brain. A common problem felt by people with hypertension is usually headaches....

The pandemic period caused by the Corona virus disease 19 or COVID-19 is a serious threat to the whole country. This virus that originated in Wuhan, China, has the potential to affect the global economy and cause many serious problems in the medical world. In response to this problem, the Indonesian...

Antibiotics is a drug used to treat infections caused by bacteria that are often used in the practice of pharmacy. In addition to the therapeutic effect of antibiotics also have side effects. The most common side effects of diarrhea, but it also can cause serious effects if there are toxicophore groups...

The behavior of giving Early breastfeeding initiation by mothers to infants is still very low, one of which is due to the lack of knowledge of mothers about breastfeeding. Mothers who do not do Early breastfeeding initiation are at risk of failing in giving exclusive breastfeeding. The study aimed to...

The human will be energetic in doing daily life activities as the impact practicing sport consistently and consequently. Practicing sport instills moral values, noble character, sportivity, discipline, avoid discrimination such religion discrimination, tribe, difference social status, and other form...

The training program used by SSB ASCO did not pay attention to the intelligence aspects so that it had not been able to speak much in football matches in the city of Padang. This study aims to find out whether there is a relationship between the level of intelligence and basic techniques of football...

The well nourished food choices depended on the nutritional knowledge’s and nutrition attitudes of people. The purpose of this study was to determine the level of nutrition knowledge, eating habits, and nutritional status of Jakarta’s Water Polo athletes who will participate in 20th National Sports Event...

When this research was conducted after the revision of the proposal seminar and validation test, it was estimated in July 2019. Then the place of research was conducted at Medan State University, Faculty of Sports Science. In media development research, smash tools are a process used to develop and validate...

Automation trends, the latest data exchange, cloud computing, the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence or artificial intelligence (AI) and all virtual things that can facilitate human operational activities. One of the benefits of the industrial revolution era 4.0 that can be applied is...

The increasing number of elderly will require serious treatment for the elderly naturally decline, physical, biological, and mental. People, especially the elderly in PasirMulya have bad habits in terms of preparing food, eating food, such as frequently eating fast food. To analyze the relationship between...

Background: Eclampsia is a pregnancy-specific syndrome. It affects more than 5% of pregnant women and is characterized by edemas, high blood pressure and proteinuria, it considered as one of the most serious pregnancy - specific medical conditions of increasing incidence. its complications are one of...

The UCI coverage of the Indonesian villages’ in 2016 was at 66%. Immunization is one of the most effective health effort to reduce the mortality rate of infants and toddlers. This study aimed to determine the factors related to the completeness of immunization in public health center Ladja, Ngada. The...

The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship of prenatal factors on the risk of an autism incidence in Malang City. This is an unmatched case- control study design which is used in multivariate analysis. The case group consisted of 35 mothers of affected children in Autism Service Center...

Fire is a disaster that can cause material, economic, and loss of lives. BPBD data from 2017 to 2022 shows 2,822 cases of fire in school buildings, factories, places of worship, and residents’ housing. Handling fires using a light fire extinguisher is an efficient active fire protection system. Training...

Background: People with cancer can have many adverse psychological impacts from the diagnosis. However, when dealing with advanced cancer, not only patients experience stress, but stress is also experienced by the family particularly spouse. Aim: The aim of this study is to describe coping...

A 70-year-old man visited a psychiatric clinic with persistent visual hallucinations for the past year and a half. Initially, the patient perceived black spots, which would disappear upon closing his eyes and give way to images of a man and an animal. This old man underwent a comprehensive cognitive...

The study aims to develop an android application-based strength training media for Diklat Arema Indonesia and Training soccer athletes. This study uses the development design research method developed by Borg & Gall (1983). The subjects of this study were Arema Indonesia and training soccer athletes...

Objectives: Progressive relaxation is a therapy based on the relationship between muscle and emotional tension. Anxiety is a subjective feeling of disturbing mental tension as a general reaction to the inability to overcome a problem or un secure. The Objectives is discusses of complementary protection...

The paper provides the review of literature sources on thermodynamics of inclusion complexes reactions of cyclodextrin with biologically active hydrophobic molecules. The group of authors presents the results of their experimental studies of the inclusion complexes reaction of β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) with...

Background: Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a vaginal disease commonly caused by bacteria which most commonly causes abnormal vaginal discharge during women’s reproductive-age. BV is characterized by a shift within the vaginal flora from the dominant Lactobacillus to a polymicrobial flora and is further...

Next generation sequence technique that is Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) on the ChIP–Seq of Myelofibrosis. Myelofibrosis is a type of blood cancer which is also considered as a form of chronic leukemia. It is two types primary myelofibrosis and secondary myelofibrosis its leads to complication...

Despite significant advances in the treatment of congenital malformations in newborns, there is still a fairly high mortality rate in the group of newborns with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. This fact is associated with the high incidence of concomitant pulmonary hypertension in newborns with lung...

At the beginning of 2020, Indonesia and almost the entire world were experiencing a health crisis caused by the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic causes changes in human activity patterns that can have negative effects such as decreased physical and mental health. In addition,...

Background: When a person has a hearing threshold of more than 25 dB at frequencies of 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz, they are said to have hearing loss, which can affect one or both ears and affect them in mild or severe degrees. Objective: Observing the traits of children who have hearing...

Sport is a multidimensional phenomenon, encompasses various purposes ranging from health-focused physical activities to spiritual-enhancing practices. Spirituality contributes to a person’s well-being, and recent studies begin to examine the potentials to integrate spirituality into the practice of consulting...

Essential hypertension is the most popular catastrophic case in Indonesia referred from primary health services to hospitals. High number of morbidity and mortality caused by hypertension increases financial burden of a state for catastrophic diseases. The current effort of our government to prevent...

Congress tourism is a real growth driver of the world's largest economies, which intensifies economic cross-industry ties. The priority task, solved by congress events, is to create a free communication space, within which all business participants can effectively exchange information. About 60% of all...

The high prevalence of HIV-AIDS in Medan North Sumatra as many as 3,780 cases and there has been a decrease in condom use (86%) to (51.5%) in 2011. In order to determine the cause of the condition it needs to be known description of female sex workers (FWS) behavior in offering condom for customers during...

The most commonly used denture base material is heat cured acrylic resin. This material possesses chemical properties, such as color stability. Discoloration of the denture base can be caused by the use of disinfectant solution on daily basis. This is caused by the characteristic of acrylic resin which...

Bosom milk is an optimal supplement for newborn children since bosom milk contains the perfect measure of fat, carbs, protein, also, water for development and advancement, as well as the baby’s digestion. The fat substance in bosom milk should be overwhelmed because of the breast milk storage container....

Bottle-feeding is one factor that affects the growth and development of the jaw in infants. It is a normal habit at a certain age. However, if there is prolonged bottle feeding, its frequency and duration can impact and interfere with jaw development. This study aims to establish the correlation between...

Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ARV) is the key to suppressing the development of HIV disease, reducing the risk of drug resistance, improving overall health, improving quality and survival and reducing the risk of HIV transmission. A mother must comply with ARV therapy to prevent transmission from...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is characterized by persistent airflow resistance. The degree of breathlessness in each patient can be measured by Modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) questionnaire. This study was descriptive by interviewing COPD patients. This study has been done on 45 patients...

Musculoskeletal disorders are the most common subjective complaints on the skeletal muscle that felts by the workers, which can be fatal for the worker’s safety and health. This study aims to analyse the correlation between working posture and musculoskeletal disorders on rice porters in Malang. This...

Iodine deficiency disorder (IDD) is one of Indonesia’s most serious health problems since it directly or indirectly affects the physical and non-physical qualities of individuals in the community, including intellectuality and mental retardation. All age groups are at risk of IDD. According to reference...

Nutritional status and growth in young athletes are important for building the ideal physical condition of athletes from an early age. This study aims to identify the nutritional status and growth of youth athletic athletes in Jakarta. The study was conducted on 20 youth track and field athletes. Determination...

Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2015 showed that around 1.13 billion people in the world have hypertension, meaning that 1 in 3 people in the world was diagnosed with hypertension. From the data provided by the Ministry of Health, hypertension is the first rank of non-communicable diseases...

The objectives of this study are as follows: to examine the problems of implementing Physical Education online learning, (a) obstacles to implementing Physical Education online learning, (b), the advantages of implementing Physical Education online learning and (c) best practice implementing Physical...

One of the highest disease of Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) is pneumonia. Pneumonia is a lung infection caused by viruses or bacteria. There are several risk factors that can cause pneumonia, one of the factor is nutritional status. The Aim of this study was to find out the comparison of nutritional...

Crouzon’s syndrome is a genetic disorder characterized by a distinctive malfor-mation of the skull and facial region resulting from the premature fusion of the cranial sutures, abnormal growth of bones, and facial deformities caused by the underdevelopment of the midfacial region and hypertelorism. This...

Dyslipidemia is associated with obesity. High consumption of fruit and vegetable (FV) might promote the prevention of dyslipidemia. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of 5 servings of FV to improve lipid profile on overweight adolescents. This study was an experimental study with...

Tali bamboo shoot is one of plants empirically used by the society as antihypertensive. Chemical compounds such as flavonoid, phenolic, saponins and tannins contained in Tali bamboo shoot are suspected to have antihypertensive effect. This research aimed to determine the effective dose of Tali bamboo...

The purpose of this research was to create a learning product in the form of digital Wrestling Leverage Techniques to improve the quality of learning outcomes characterized by an increase in cognitive, affective, and psychomotor abilities in the process of learning basic wrestling techniques by using...

Differences Between the Effects of Imaginary Exercise, Real Exercise, and the Combination of Imaginary Exercise and Real Exercise to Improved Basketball Free Throw Result. Postgraduate Program Unimed, 2019. This study aims to determine the Differences in the Effects of Imaginary Exercise, Real Exercise,...

Hundreds of thousand occupational accident still happened in Indonesia during 2018 and 195 cases happened in two biggest shoe factories at Karawang, this study will analyze the effectiveness of web-based near miss reporting program on preventing accident. The design of this study is case control, factory...

The purpose of this study was to see the effect of experiential learning-based play activities to improve children’s motor skills. The choice of play activities based on experiential learning is because through this activity children experience direct experience and benefit from these activities. This...

The National Community Based Total Sanitation Strategy (STBM) is an integrated action to reduce the incidence of diarrhea and improve Indonesian people’s hygiene and quality of life. Toilet ownership and use is one indicator of the Clean and Healthy Behavior (PHBS) program in the household setting. This...

The main requirement of a transfection agent has to condense DNA efficiently, protect the DNA from nucleases and other degrading enzymes during its transport in a target cell. In this research, Polysorbate 20 which is commercially known as Tween 20 has been supplemented to oligopeptide-based liposome...

Asthma in adolescence has various special aspects which are generally related to the process of growth and development and are also influenced by their perception of the disease. Objective: To explore lived experiences of adolescents with asthma in Medan, Indonesia. Methods: This was a phenomenological...

Objective: To Analyze factors correlating with adolescents sexual behavior at Senior High School "x" Banjarmasin Technology or Method: This study used an analytical survey with cross-sectional approach. The sample used is 65 people at Senior High School "x" with simple random sampling technique. Dependent...

Family support is a component to provide caring at home. Nurses who established interpersonal interaction with the family will assist in the implementation of nursing actions that have been planned. The purpose of this studied to identify the interpersonal interaction nurses with family to improving...

The study aims at finding out the effect of dumbbell swing to the arms muscle strength of Petanque sports training athletes in Bekasi. The method of the study was experimental method. The population of the study was 15 sports training athletes in Bekasi, in which 8 athletes of sports training was chosen...

Diarrhea is still a public health problem in developing countries. The availability of basic sanitation such as clean water, the use of latrines, the disposal of wastewater, the garbage disposal, the house and the healthy environment and the cultivation of clean and healthy living behaviors in daily...

The article analyzes the problem of alcohol behavior of women of reproductive age in Eastern Siberia and assessment of their quality of life. The authors analyze the current research of this problem and make a conclusion about the ambiguity of the solution of the problem of alcohol behavior in women...

Mansonia is one of the genera of mosquitoes that play a role in the transmission of filariasis in North Hulu Sungai Utara undertook mass treatment of entire endemic communities from 2006 to 2015 to eliminate the transmission of the disease. However, post validation surveillance activities are required...

Various problems of the lawsuit exist because the health service is not optimal, complaints about the quality of health services are also perceived. If the medical record document is filled with complete, it will be easy for health professionals to explain it if there is a lawsuit. The contents of the...

According to an evaluation in early 2016 the coverage of IVA exams in Bogor City was still very low at around 10.4%. This is far from the target of the Bogor City Health Office, which in 85 years is 85% or an annual target of 20% of the population at risk. The purpose of this study was to determine the...

Coordination is one of the most critical elements for futsal players, especially for junior players. This study aimed to examine the content validity of the coordination training model for junior futsal players using a qualitative and quantitative approach. Four experts, two in the physical condition...

Background: COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It develops into acute respiratory distress and the majority of affected patients are placed under respiratory assistance in the intensive care unit. Furthermore, several efforts have been made...

Background: Oxidative stress has been implicated as a part of the pathophysiological mechanisms of Schizophrenia. Oxidative stress occurs due to the imbalance of antioxidants and oxidants. Glutathione is one of the primary antioxidants that contribute to the oxidative-stress-preventable mechanism. The...

Increases in the ideal level of public health are the objective of health development, which is a component of national development. The truth is that public health is still in horrible shape, especially for the poor. Based on the infant mortality rate (IMR) of 35 per 1,000 live births and the maternal...

A lack of knowledge and an attitude can cause the failure in exclusive breastfeeding (ASI). Counseling has a significant role in enhancing abilities and encouraging someone to behave. The study aimed to determine the effect of counseling on knowledge, attitudes, and practices of mothers in relation to...

In orthodontics treatment, to obtain a good and stable occlusion, harmony between the combined mesiodistal width of maxillary teeth and that of mandibular teeth must be attempted. Extraction of premolar is routinely carried out as part of orthodontic treatment, but it can lead to the changes of the overall...

Breeding system in goats in Indonesia applying had two models of breeding with owned bucks by breeders or breeding assisted by bucks selected from the government in the form of frozen semen. Problems interesting note was how the genetic variation of the population of the goat. The purpose of this study...

Background: Corona infection is a viral infection that attacks the respiratory system. Patients who are classified as suspect Covid-19 undergo independent isolation at home or in the hospital so that they do not transmit to other people and their health conditions are monitored. Home care of patients...

Pain is a sense of discomfort and accompanied by pain due to cell damage to the body. Pain can be overcome with the use of modern medicine and folk remedies. One of the plants that are suspected to be analgesics is the sisik naga leaf (Drymoglossum sp.). This test aims to find out the analgesic effect...

Background: The healthcare sector is a complex and demanding sector, with workplace violence being a serious risk to healthcare workers. Aim: The current literature review to understand the frequency of workplace violence against nurses and how it relates to stress at work, job satisfaction,...

Yogyakarta has a high number of morbidity rate which equal high possibility of using medical services. In therapeutic transaction arise obligation between patient, health personnel and health institution. This research to understand the legal analysis of informed consent in health services as well as...

Periodontal disease is an infectious disease that attacks gingiva and other dental supporting tissue which caused by microbial bacteria in subgingival plaque. The majority bacteria are an anaerobic gram-negative. Propolis is one of natural products as an antimicrobial mouthwash. One type of bee that...

It was recently shown that perception of the blue part of visible spectrum is mediated by melanopsins localized not only in the retina, but also in cells of the vascular wall. We have studied changes in the human cardiorespiratory system under the influence of light with a wavelength of 470 ± 10 nm in...

Heart diseases can be diagnosed and evaluated using cardiac catheterization, which requires standardized policies of care. Cardiac catheterization needs qualified and skilled healthcare providers for excellent management outcomes. The current study aims to assess the nurses’ knowledge of patient care...

Abortion is one of the obstetric complications that are often found in pregnant women. The cause of abortion is not known with certainty, but it is suspected that one of the causes is an imbalance of pro-oxidants and antioxidants that occurs during placentation. Catalase is an enzyme that functions to...

The work investigated the immediate and distant consequences of the introduction of Cortineff. Cortineff, as a derivative of corticosteroids, has both mineral- and glucocorticoid properties. Moreover, its predominant effects are mineralocorticoid. The injection of Cortineff to pregnant rats caused a...

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) occurs when there is evidence of myocardial injury (an increase in cardiac troponin values) and clinical evidence of myocardial ischemia. Data from the Jakarta Acute Coronary Syndrome Registry states that in 2014 there were 3015 patients with acute coronary syndrome...

Childhood is the most vulnerable time for anxiety syndrome since anxiety syndrome will continue to adolescent, and 15-20% can cause trauma, decreased school performance, turnover of mental health disorders such as depression and early treatment due to psychiatric disorders. About 8% of children in the...

Background: Dysmenorrhea is a gynecological discomfort due to an imbalance of the hormone progesterone in the blood, causing pain that most often occurs in menstruation period. Giving a warm compress uses the principle of heat delivery through conduction, by attaching a hot bladder to the stomach for...

Sexual and reproductive health education is still considered taboo to be given to teenagers, so there are still many myths and bad perceptions related to menstruation. Preliminary studies show that there was 6 out of 10 students had poor menstrual personal hygiene. Self-care during menstruation can be...

The Child is a unique individual and has need by with their development stage, one of which is sleep. Sleep is one of the pleasures and great mercy value of the many pleasures given by God Almighty to man. Sleep disorders in children are quite often experienced by parents, but unfortunately, these conditions...

The physical condition training method for football athletes is still relatively low. In European countries, physical condition training is varied, even lead to multitasking training through life kinetik. So that the performance of athletes is better at performing tasks. The study aims to examine the...

The objective of this study is to determine factors associated with gingivitis in 10-year-old Vietnamese school children. A cross-sectional study consisted of 1,079 children matched for age 10-year-old who were randomly selected from 16 public schools in Ho Chi Minh City, 2015 applying PPS (Probability...

This research is conducted in big city Car Free Day area, especially Semarang and Surabaya to find out public participation and the impact of sport performed at car free day area. This research is qualitative research by using observation and interview methods. The technique of analyzing data is using...

Study showed that 95% women had serum level of 25(OH)D lower than normal and women have riskier lifestyle than men, this is based on women's lifestyle, such as avoiding sun rays, sunblock application, low vitamin D intake, and low physical activity. As result of the deficiency, there will be increasing...

Patients undergoing long-term hemodialysis will face various physical and psychosocial problems. Psychosocial problems include the inability to resume a normal lifestyle, self-reliance in life anxiety, depression, social isolation, loneliness, helplessness, and despair. Renal failure patients should...

This study aims to find out: (1) Describing the conditions and potential instruments of attitude assessment that exist and are used today. (2) Producing attitudinal assessment instruments on sports and health physical education learning. (3) Test the level of validity and reliability of attitude assessment...

At the time of fever children need more fluids because of an increase in evaporation. Venous puncture is one of the measures to meet the patient’s fluid needs. Installation of infusion and blood collection in children is not easy because the child has a small and fragile vein, so frequent intravenous...

Safe and satisfied parturition are influenced by anxiety suffered by mothers during maternity. Anxiety and pain during maternity cause stress responses. It increases catecholamine causing vasoconstriction which influences to womb contraction, pain, and parturition length. Multi-sensory stimuli are identified...

Introduction: Pain is a cause of dissatisfaction in labor. The use of lumbar epidural analgesia (LEA) in labor is widespread due to its benefits in terms of pain relief and the shortening of labor time. The study selected 50 consecutive primiparaous women in labor at Asri Medical Center. They were given...

Islamic caring is a form of caring based on Islamic values following the guidance of the Qur’an and Hadith. There are still many unfulfilled caring behaviors. One of them is in the context of Islam in Indonesia, in which most people adhere to Islam, giving rise to many perceptions of patients who receive...

Physical fitness is one of the problems which have something to do with health issues experienced by many people including university students. Students with a good physical fitness will have good health condition which enables them to do their daily activities without experiencing major fatigue. One...

Bipolar disorder was a severe mental disorder that had a quite high prevalence of around 1-2%, with multifactorial etiology. Most patients had a chronic symptom of bipolar disorder. The chronicity of symptoms caused comorbidities that could eventually cause malfunction and death. This study aimed to...

Laryngeal cancer is a malignancy on larynx that may occur in glottis, supraglottic and subglottic. This malignancy is a second most carcinoma in head and neck area Clinical manifestation such as dysphonia, breathing obstruction, dysphagia, odynophagia, and hemoptysis. Reported a laryngeal cancer with...

Purpose The study explores the psychological conditions of COVID-19 nurses at the Medan City Hospital. Method Research design was descriptive phenomenological qualitative. The purposive sampling method was used to obtain data from 10 participants through in-depth interviews....

This study was to identify the duration of sedentary screen time (SST) and gross motor skills (GMS) of Indonesian preschoolers in the urban area. This study used an IPAQ questionnaire and Test of Gross Development (TGMD) to collect data. Preschoolers who live in urban area are involved in this study....

Give only breast milk for the first six months is recommended for optimizing the infant’s growth and development. In fact, the rate of exclusive breastfeeding in Indonesia is relatively low. This study was aimed to assess the survival probability of exclusive breastfeeding and identify the factors related...

Lately, the dynamic fast pace of modern world has led people to live a sedentary lifestyle, which is defined as lifestyle with lack of physical activity. Such kind of lifestyle would have an effect on Body Mass Index (BMI), Physical Fitness Level (PFL) and Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP). The fact that...

The aim of research was to study the interdependency between the elemental and amino acid composition of blood serum among the sledge hockey athletes. Determination of the elemental and amino acid composition of blood was performed using an Elan 9000 mass spectrometer and an Optima 2000 V atomic emission...