Non-communicable disease is an enormous challenge for both national and international health system due to its rapidly increasing incidents and prevalence during the last three decades. Moreover, there are still many undiagnosed diabetes mellitus cases in Indonesia. Both undiagnosed cases and diagnosed...

Stroke is a functional brain disorder in the form of nerve paralysis (neurologic deficit) due to blocked blood flow to the brain. Therapy in stroke patients usually gets more than two kinds of drugs so that drug interactions often occur. One mechanism of drug interaction is pharmacokinetics. Pharmacokinetic...

The prevalence of diabetes mellitus increases as someone grows older. This increase is related to changes in lifestyle, including smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, eating patterns that lacks of vegetables and fruits, obesity, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia. This study aims to determine...

Kencur (Kaempferiae galanga L.) is a plant that is traditionally used for the treatment of various diseases including inflammation. This study aimed to know the comparison of the effectiveness of kencur extracts with diclofenac sodium as an antiinflammatory agent. Fifteen female rats aged 2-3 months...

Steroid and non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs have many side effects so that many anti-inflammatory developments are made from natural ingredients, especially in plants. Plants that are scientifically proven to have antiinflammatory characteristic, one of which is from Zingiberaceae family. Kencur...

Diabetes mellitus is a great challenge against health system in many developing countries, including Indonesia. The continuous changing lifestyle and a long-term treatment causes new problem for diabetes patients, such as stress and reducing quality of life. On the other hand, some cases of diabetes...

Stroke is a functional brain disorder in the form of nerve paralysis (deficit neurologic) due to obstruction of blood flow to the brain. Based on the Basic health research (Riskesdas) in 2018, the prevalence of stroke in Indonesia increased from 7% (2013) to 10.9% (2018) so it is necessary to optimize...

The most serious side effects of chemotherapy are nausea and vomiting. Through the provision of non-invasive pressure on the P6 point using an acupressure wristbands, the effect of nausea and vomiting can be reduced. This study aims to describe the effect of the use of acupressure wristbands on acute...

Pain of Dysmenorrhea is a physiological condition that will generally be experienced by women who are menstruating. Pain is a manifestation of uterine muscle contraction. Self-Tapping is one of Nonpharmacologic therapy that aims to reduce physical pain and fatigue. The purpose of this research is to...

Introduction: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the respiratory tract. The interaction among several hormones and mediators causes asthma symptoms. This study aimed to identify a correlation between the cortisol hormone, interleukin-5 level, and asthma control in asthma atopy persistent. Materials...

Diseases that are mostly suffered by the elderly include hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes mellitus. One of the non-communicable diseases that cause mortality and morbidity in Indonesia is hypertension, the management of which is commonly practiced at various levels of health facilities. The...

Chronic diseases, including Diabetes Mellitus, are stressors for individuals. This will affect the emotion regulation of individual. Individuals need a source of coping to solve the stressors, one of which is spirituality. Spiritual comfort will help individuals adapt to stressors so as to produce adaptive...

Breast cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy often experience psycholytic disorder in the form of anxiety. One of the efforts of medical treatment for cancer treatment is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy action resulted in physical and psychological side effects, one of the psychological effects that arises...

The number of diabetes mellitus patients keeps increasing from year to year. The condition of hyperglycemia in DM patients causes an increase in angiotensin II hormone which leads to the hypertension. The prevalence of cardiovascular disease complication in DM patients is 29%. The purpose of this study...

In conducting a thesis, students may experience stress. Obstacles faced by students while working on a thesis can cause tension or other stress symptoms and ultimately students stop working on a thesis due to feelings of fear, frustration, worry, and doubt. The stress response is a manifestation of a...

Internationally the incidence of hypertension in primigravida is around 7–12%, increasing in multiple pregnancy, pregnancy, pregnancy with diabetes mellitus, molahidatidosa pregnancy and in 5–8% multigravida pregnancy. In Indonesia the estimated incidence of gestational hypertension is around 6–12% and...

Stunting is a long-term lack of proteinenergy characterized by a lack of height according to age. The prevalence of stunting in Indonesia is ranked fourth in Asia, with a prevalence of 36.4%. This study was aimed to analyze the relationship of exclusive breastfeeding, complementary food for breast milk...

GAD (Generalized anxiety disorder) or Comprehensive Anxiety Disorder is a feeling of severe anxiety that is persistent, accompanied by somatic symptoms that cause social function and work function disorders. GAD patients often get more than two types of drugs thereby increasing the likelihood of drug...

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is an anxiety disorder with an estimated 6 % of Indonesia’s population. The medication of anxiolytic must be administered appropriately according to the patient’s clinical condition. This is due to the variability of individual responses to anxiolytic drugs. This study...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the non-communicable diseases commonly found in Indonesia, including at Kalibagor Public Health Center of Banyumas Regency. Physical, psychological changes and social culture are the stressors in DM patients. Spiritual comfort consisting of intrapersonal, interpersonal,...

In adolescence, many psychological and biological changes occur. One of the problems experienced by adolescents is anemia. Iron deficiency anemia can have a variety of effects on young women. One of them is affecting the immune system, and thus it is susceptible to illness, decreased activity, and low...

Puberty is a transition period between childhood and adulthood where growth spurt occurs, and people in this period relatively have not reached the stage of mental and social maturity so they must face conflicting emotional and social pressures. According to WHO, adolescents are when children reach the...

Management of dysmenorrhea pain is very important. One of them is using non-pharmacological techniques, which are finger handheld relaxation pain sensations and deliver the transmission of pain impulses to the brain. Self-tapping is tapping touch which is done independently. Self-tapping can apply basic...

Background: Postpartum period is a critical period throughout a woman’s life cycle. Many problems arise during the puerperium, one of them is anemia. In 2012, The data of Family Health Survey showed that the incidence of anemia in postpartum mothers reached 45.1%. It had an impact on the supply of nutrients...

Background: Comprehensive care during the puerperium is needed because this period is a critical period for both mother and baby. The prevalence of anemia in postpartum mothers according to WHO, amounted to 41.8% while in Indonesia the incidence of anemia was relatively high at 63.5%. The incidence of...

Guava has some potential antioxidant compounds that are varied in characteristics and solubilities. In this research, the study of solvent (methanol, ethyl acetate, and hexane) effects on extraction process of antioxidant compounds in guava fruit were conducted. The extraction method used was sonicator...

Antioxidant plays an important role in preventing degenerative diseases. One of fruits that has a potential antioxidant activity is guava. This research was aim to identify antioxidant activity of guava fruit. Potential antioxidant compounds in guava were extracted using sonicator, as a green extraction...

Background: Prolonged labor is the most common cause of cesarean delivery. Risks of prolonged labor in mothers are bleeding due to uterine atony, laceration of the birth canal, infection, fatigue, and shock while the risks of prolonged labor in the fetus can increase the risk of severe asphyxia, cerebral...

Epidemiological studies show that the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance (GTG) increase in line with the age. The increase in the prevalence of non-communicable diseases is associated with changes in lifestyle, including smoking, consumption of alcoholic beverages, physical...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a disease caused by metabolic disorders that occur in the pancreas which are characterized by an increase in blood sugar or often referred to as hyperglycemia due to a decrease in the amount of insulin from the pancreas (American Diabetes Association, 2012). The most common...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a disease caused by metabolic disorders that occur in the pancreas which are characterized by an increase in blood sugar or often referred to as hyperglycemia due to a decrease in the amount of insulin from the pancreas (American Diabetes Association, 2012). The most common...

Hypertension is a global health problem resulting in increased morbidity and mortality and the burden of health costs, including in Indonesia. The purpose of this study was to find out the difference between Ar Rahman Murotal Therapy and Progressive Muscle Relaxation in decreasing blood pressure in hypertension...

As 60% of maternal deaths occurred during childbirth, 26.32% occurred during pregnancy and 13.68% occurred at the time of delivery. The causes of maternal mortality include metabolic disorders was 0.87%, infections of 4.34%, circulatory system disorders, 12.36%, bleeding 30.37%, hypertension in pregnancy...

Background: Sleep disturbance is the most common problem in patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). This study investigated the adverse events of sleep quality that affect Quality of Life (QoL) and identified risk factors of sleep disorders with general participant’s characteristics, related to...

Self-control is important for people with Diabetes Mellitus, this is obtained if you get support from your family. Reminding each other or controlling management is diabetics. Whether we realize it or not, when someone experiences diabetes mellitus they will experience difficult times. They must begin...

Self-control is important for people with Diabetes Mellitus, this is obtained if you get support from your family. Reminding each other or controlling management is diabetics. Whether we realize it or not, when someone experiences diabetes mellitus they will experience difficult times. They must begin...

Obesity is one of the epidemic diseases in most developed countries. According to the WHO report states that more than 1.9 billion adults worldwide are overweight and more than 600 million people are obese, corresponding to 39% overweight and 13% obesity rates for the adult population in the world. Obesity...

Stunting is a nutritional problem that is influenced by various factors. Basic Health Research states that the prevalence of stunting in Indonesia has reached 30.8%. This study aimed to analyze the relationship between the characteristics of children under five years old, infectious disease status and...

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...

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...

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...

Patients with chronic renal failure who do hemodialysis can reduce the risk of damage to vital organs due to accumulation of toxic substances in the circulation, but this action does not heal or restore kidney function permanently. Patients undergoing long-term hemodialysis will face various problems,...

Age below five, especially 624 months is a transition age that is vulnerable to malnutrition. Children who experience malnutrition will experience growth and development disorders, iron deficiency anemia. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between hemoglobin status and nutritional...

Stunting and anemia are long-standing public health challenges which adversely affects the cognitive development and physical wellbeing of children. Anemia and stunting occurring in this key period have serious implications for individuals and societies, especially in rural areas in developing country....

Unchangeable risk factors such as family history, genetic, age and sex. Risk factors that can be changed and affect the incidence of hyperuricemia are obesity, food and alcohol intake, drug consumption, kidney disorders and hypertension. The purpose of the study was to analyze the correlation of obesity...

Gout is also associated with various diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus and other types of metabolic diseases. The mechanism of the occurrence of Arthritis Gout in metabolic diseases is due to increased kidney workload. Gout Arthritis is also related to hypertension...

Indonesia is one of the countries included in the thalassemia belt. A total of 4,710 people with thalassemia are individuals in the age group of less than 15 years. Thalassemia that occurs to children will affect the parents because children with thalassemia need regular blood transfusions throughout...

Hypertension is a non-communicable disease that gets the nickname “The Silent Killer”, because of its characteristics that cause death without any previous symptoms. The number of elderly population in Indonesia according to 2016 Susenas data is 22.4 million people or 8.69% of the population, and hypertension...

INTRODUCTION: Hypertension is a cause of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality. Hypertension sometimes does not cause specific symptoms, but patients will feel nonspecific symptoms such as headaches, tingling, and stiff neck feeling. Efforts can be made independently to reduce these symptoms...

Introduction. Central obesity influences maternal mortality, especially on the incidence of non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, osteoarthritis, chronic renal failure and several cancers. The objective of the study: to investigate the risk factors for central obesity....

Tali bamboo shoot is young shoot of bamboo potential to treat several diseases, one of them is hypertension. The aim of this study was to qualitatively identify chemical compounds and to determine antihypertensive activity of Tali bamboo ethanol extract. Extraction method applied in this experiment was...

Family resilience is established to reduce the incidence of trauma, depression, loss and crisis experienced by families and family members. Apart from the importance of the concept of family resilience, there has not been an adequate focus on all aspects of this concept in the discipline of nursing....

Stunting is a condition where a child’s height is much shorter than the height of other children at his age. Based on the Riskesdas in 2018 it is known that the prevalence of children under five with the height level of very short and short at 30.8%. The highest problem of energy and protein deficits...

Erectile dysfunction is the one of male sexual problems. Testosterone stimulate erection process physiologically. The study showed that black pepper extract increased sexual performance and testosterone level in animal research. The purpose of this study was to know the erotogenic effect, testosterone...

Hypertension often occurs in the elderly due to hormonal changes after menopause. Treatment of hypertension can be done non-pharmacologically by consuming chayote. This study was to explore the effect of chayote juice on blood pressure in elderly people with hypertension at Puskesmas (Community Health...

Everyone will face the aging process. The elderly’s problems are physical mobility and physiology causing a decrease on their muscle strenght. Mirror therapy is one of nursing interventions that can improve muscle strenght. This study aimed to identify the influence of mirror therapy on muscle strenght...

Nursing is a profession that focuses on caring for patients individually, family, or community so that the nurses must be able to prevent, maintain, or restore optimal health and quality of life. Rapid and unpredictable health services placed nurses to occupational-related diseases especially musculoskeletal...

Attitude is one of the factors that influence drop-out behaviour. Attitudes influence behaviour through a careful and reasonable decision making process. In this study, researchers divided the drop-out into 2 types: positive drop-out and negative drop-out. It was said positive drop-out if the respondent...

Surgery is a medical procedure that can cause perioperative pain. Pain in the perioperative phase that received by the patient can cause various complications. Hypnosis is a part of complementary and alternative therapies that are able to cope with pain. The purpose of the review is to perform a systematic...

The number of dead in Indonesia in 2015 reached a high rate, were 305 per 100,000 live births. Maternal deaths that occur in Indonesia are caused by several factors, including long-standing or obstructed labour by 5%. Birth ball is a physical therapy ball that helps with labour and can be used in various...

Dysmenorrhea can cause women unable to do activities normally and need medication or special treatment. Dysmenorrhea complaints are related to repeated absenteeism at school or in the workplace so that they can interfere with productivity. Despite its high prevalence, primary dysmenorrhea is often treated...

Background: This study was conducted to determine whether the intervention of family assistance module can improve the family role and decrease HbA1c values with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM) in Solok Regional Hospital. Methods: This study was a quasi- experiment with one group pretest-posttest design....

1) Background: Menstrual pain is cramping and excessive pain experienced by women during menstruation. The impact of menstrual pain can result in a woman being forced to leave work and disrupt daily activities. Non pharmacological therapy is also needed to reduce menstrual pain, mint scent found in mint...

Adolescence is a period marked by physical, emotional and psychological changes called puberty. One sign of puberty is the occurrence of menstruation, a disorder that arises in the menstrual cycle, namely dysmenorrhea. According to Anwar1, the prevalence of dysmenorrhea in Indonesia is 60-70%. Handling...

Obesity is still a national problem. The prevalence of obesity is raising with increasing individual income. Various innovations in the field of sports do not increase the desire and tendency to exercise. Personal motivation is needed to lose weight which is directly beneficial to health. The presence...

Low back pain (LBP) is a therapeutically demanding condition among older adults. This quasi-experimental study aimed to determine the effect of tai chi, a non-pharmacologic intervention for pain, on older adults’ degree of LBP and disability. A sample of 90 older adults was non-randomly divided into...

Background-This descriptive research aimed at identifying factors associated to the QoL among older people residing in Muang district, Phayao province, Thailand. 388 older people were recruited by the multistage random sampling. Interviewing questionnaires were used to collect the data. Data were analyzed...

Background: The international diabetes federation (IDF, 2015) reveals that 415 million people in the world suffer from diabetes mellitus. IDF further reports that about 542,000 adolescents worldwide with T1DM. In the Philippines, 3.5 million cases of DM have been reported in 2015. The incidence of diabetes...

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease that causes high morbidity and mortality. Complications of DM can be categorized as serious problems because the presence of these complications can affect the quality of life of patients. Stress is common in someone with diabetes and requires proper treatment...

Background: Acute myocardial infarction (IMA) is a heart disease caused by coronary arteries, and thus myocardium has lack of oxygen resulting in myocardial tissue death. In Indonesia, the prevalence of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) has increased by 25% to 40%, and the highest prevalence...

Background: Smoking plays a role in hypertension. Smoking consumption in Indonesia was the highest among ASEAN countries in 2017. It is estimated that new smokers aged 19 and under are about 16.4 million. Increased blood pressure is influenced by several factors, one of the factors is smoking. Blood...

Hospitals as social organizations responsible for health services for the community are required to always provide good services. Every workplace always contains various potential dangers, with fatigue it can trigger stress that can affect health such as the onset of work stress. Job stress is a dangerous...

Chronic kidney disease occurs due to impaired kidney function that are progressive and settled. One of the treatment is hemodialysis that performed in a long period, causing changes in the physical, psychological, social, and the economic of the patient. These changes can affect the patient’s coping...

One way to lower blood pressure is using feet soaking therapy with warm water using a ginger aromatherapy. Soaking parts of the body into the warm water can improve circulation, reduce edema, and improve muscle relaxation, which leads to blood pressure drop. This study aimed to find out whether there...

Length of Stay (LOS) is one of the indicators of quality service in a hospital. Length of Stay is the duration of treatment days in hospital in one period of nursing. One of the factors Influencing LOS is the care giver, in this case is caring behavior from nurses. The purpose of this research was to...

Background: Health education is a planning effort for influencing, helping and giving protection so that the audience will be able to act based on expectation. The purpose of this study was to find out the the effectiveness of leaflet and video media in health education toward student knowledge about...