Aceh Besar District is a filariasis endemic area. This endemic state is strongly influenced by people’s perception of filariasis countermeasures. This study aimed to determine relation between family perceptions towards health role in filariasis countermeasures using the Health Belief Model. An analytical survey was applied with a cross-sectional study approach. The study population was famil…
Family planning program has a very strategic, comprehensive and fundamental meaning in creating a healthy and prosperous Indonesian human being. However, recently the incidence of drop out is quite high for several reasons. This study was conducted to determine the influential factors that cause acceptors to drop out. It is descriptive research. The populations in the study were contraceptive a…
The number of adolescent pregnancies in Indonesia is still very high. Sewon Subdistrict had the highest number of adolescent deliveries in Bantul District in 2015-2016. This study aimed to determine factors influencing exclusive breastfeeding among adolescent mothers in Sewon Subdistrict, Bantul District. This study used cross-sectional study design and a sample size of 45 that were adolescent …
Family Planning (FP) program achievement in North Sumatera Province is less encouraging. Total fertility rate in North Sumatera (3.0) is higher than the national (2.6) and contraceptive prevalence (55.9%) is lower than the national (61.4%). As one strategy to increase FP participation, momentum sterilization service was feared not to meet the medical care standard because related to Indonesian …
Family Planning Information, Education, Communication (FP IEC) takes an important role in improving achievement of prevalence of Family Planning participation. However, contraceptive use prevalence in Indonesia within the last decade (2002-2012) did not significantly increase, although many FP IEC activities had been performed. This study aimed to determine socioeconomic demographic factors rel…
This study explored the essence of the lived experiences of family members with children with maladaptive behavior who have been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in Bengkulu Province, Indonesia. It aims to enumerated and specified the challenges in caring for a child with paranoid schizophrenia and the study cited how family members cope with the challenges. The participants of this study …
Family members of traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients have commonly experienced high level of stress and uncertainty due to the patient's condition. To alleviate stress of family members, it requires providing care to fulfill family needs. Unfortunately, nurses often rarely assess the needs of family members. As a consequence nurses rarely provide the appropriate nursing care, and as a result…
In the recent years, there have been a considerable number of nurses who left the country to work on places which offers better working conditions. Despite this trend, there are still significant number of Filipino nurses who decide upon staying in the Philippines to work. However, it is disappointing that nurses are often unrecognized and unappreciated not only by members of the society, but m…
Introduction: Males are the most important members and care-takers of the family, but they are considered to be uncooperative when it comes to the usage of family planning methods. Traditionally, family planning programs have focused primarily on women, and most of the methods are designed for women considering that it is the women who become pregnant and it is easy to deliver reproductive heal…