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Factors of Incidence of Hypertension in Southwest Sumba Kaka, Apliana Lupu; Salmun, Johny A.R; Budi, Agus Setyo
Timorese Journal of Public Health Vol 2 No 2 (2020): Timorese Journal of Public Health
Publisher : Faculty of Public Health, Nusa Cendana University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35508/tjph.v2i2.2297

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Hypertension in conditions when blood pressure is at a value of 130/80 mmHg or more with the number of cases experiencing an increase from 2016-2018, Tana Mete Village, Kodi Balaghar District. in 2016 there were 880 (8.8%), cases in 2017 were 2,580 (25.8%) cases and in 2018 there were 3. 410 (34.1%) cases. Hypertension in influenced by factors of age, smoking habits, stress, and alcohol consumption. This study aims to analyze the relationship between age, smoking habits, stress, and alcohol comsuption. This research is an analytic observational research with a case control research design. The number of cases in Tana Mete Village, Kodi Balaghar District, Southwest Sumba Regency was 220 (22%) and the sample was 80 respondents and divided into two groups, namely the case and control group, the case group was 40 respondents and the control group was 40 respondents. These variables have been analyzed univariately and bivariately, the results of this study incidate that there are three risk factor variables for the incidence of hypertentsion. Namely age with a value p= 0.003, OR=4.059 (95% CI: 1.568-10.510), smoking habits with a value p=0.001, OR: 6.378 (95%CI:2.280-17.842), stress with a value of p=0.014, OR: 3.095 (95%CI: 3.095-7.706) while the variable alcohol comsumption has no relationship with the value of p=0.133. To prevent the occurrence of hypertension, the activities undertaken include avoiding smoking, stress and taking time for recreation.
Factors Related to Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour with Scabies Incidence at Kuanfatu Health Center Alunpah, Marchelino; Salmun, Johny A.R; Purnawan, Sigit
Timorese Journal of Public Health Vol 4 No 1 (2022): Timorese Journal of Public Health
Publisher : Faculty of Public Health, Nusa Cendana University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35508/tjph.v4i1.6208

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Scabies is a skin disease caused by Sarcoptes Scabiei Var hominis. In Indonesia, scabies is called kudis, gudik, or buduk, anyone who comes into contact with S. Scabiei can be infested with scabies. Scabies is a disease that is always included in the 10 most common diseases in the work area of ​​the Kuanfatu Health Center from 2018 to 2020. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of people aged over 10 years with the incidence of scabies in the work area of ​​the Kuanfatu Health Center 2021. Research design uses analytical survey with the case-control method. The case population in this study were people aged over 10 years with the incidence of scabies and the control population was those who were not scabies. Case sampling was carried out by total sampling, while the control sample was taken using the purposive sampling method with the number of samples of cases and controls is 41people with ratio 1:1. The results obtained in this study stated that there was a significant association between knowledge (p = 0.008), bathing and changing behavior with the incidence of scabies (p = 0.006) and there was no significant association between attitudes with the incidence of scabies (p = 1.00). This study shows that there is an association between knowledge, bathing behavior, and changing people's clothes in the Kuanfatu Health Center with the incidence of scabies. Suggestions in this study are to provide understanding for the community through health promotion related to scabies disease so that people can understand and know the causes and ways to prevent scabies disease