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BACKGROUND: Nurses’ duties and responsibilities related to the risk of transmitting COVID-19. Studies that explore nurses’ feelings and perspectives in providing health services at COVID-19 referral hospitals, especially in developing countries like Indonesia, are limited. AIM: This study aims to explore nurses’ feelings, perceptions, and expectations of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: This qualitative study applied the qualitative descriptive design that involved 17 nurses from different hospitals in Indonesia. The semi-structured interview gathered their views of COVID-19, and the comparative analysis for interviews technique was chosen to analyze the data. RESULTS: Three themes emerged from the data analysis. The themes were nurses’ express psychological responses in facing the COVID-19 pandemic such as fear, surrender, panic, and calmness. Other two themes included the COVID 19 pandemic enhances nurses’ health awareness and behavior, and the government protect nurses from the COVID-19 transmission and social stigma. CONCLUSION: The feelings reported dominantly by the nurse, in addition to information about health awareness, behavior, the government’s actions, and their expectations. Mental health assistance would be useful to prevent depression in nurses, and the government’s comprehensive approaches in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic would increase the protection and productivity of health workers, including nurses.

Adolescents with ASD who are living in dormitory with only the assistance of caregivers and without the presence of parents are demanded to be more independent in self-care. Complex disorders that occur in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affect the child's self autonomy to fulfill self-care needs. This study aims to identify the description of self-care agency in adolescents with ASD who are living in dormitory of SLB “X” in Bandung District.This research used a quantitative descriptive design. The sample in this study was adolescents with ASD who are living in dormitory, used total sampling technique with the total of 35 people. The instrument of this study was Kenny Self Care Evaluation (KSCE) which was analyzed and presented in tabular form using frequency distribution in percentage.The results showed that in personal hygiene (74.3%) and toileting (71.4%) of respondents experienced total dependence. In transfer activities (77.1%), dressing (65.7%), and feeding (82.9%) of respondents needed minimal assistance or supervision. However, in activities in bed and locomotion all respondents were independent. The conclusion from this study shows that adolescents with ASD experienced the lowest level of independence where they needed total support in carrying personal hygiene and toileting activities. Thus, it is essential for school and dormitory managers to work closely with community nurses to improve adolescent's skills in self-care by providing education to both adolescents and caregivers.

Elderly are particularly vulnerable groups that is prone to experiencing a decline in health related to a physiological decline. Vulnerability such as changes in structure of blood vessel walls lead to increased incidence of hypertension. Moreover, in uncontrolled conditions, elderly with hypertension can suffer symptoms of sleeping disorder, changes of sleep pattern that triggers the increasing of blood pressure and affect sleep quality. The purpose of this descriptive quantitative research was to describe the sleep quality of elderly with hypertension based on seven components of sleep quality assessment. The research design used a descriptive quantitative with a cross-sectional approach. The study was conducted at Ciparay and Garut Elderly Social Rehabilitation Centre, with number of the sample obtained 37 elderlies who were elected by total sampling technique. The result of this study showed that 89,2% of respondents had poor sleep quality. Several conditions that stimulate poor sleep quality in the elderly come from high blood pressure which causes sleep disturbances, thereby changing several sleep components such as short sleep duration less than 6 hours, sleep latency 15-30 minutes, decreased sleep efficiency below 85%, and activity dysfunction in daytime. Future research is expected to be able to modify sleep quality measuring instruments that are specifically used to measure the quality of sleep for people with hypertension.

Introduction: Foot care behavior is an important component in the prevention of diabetic feet, but most DM sufferees ignore this. Factors that influence the foot care behavior in people with diabetes mellitus, namely age, sex, education, knowledge, income and duration of diabetes. The purpose of this research was to determine the description of foot care behavior and the factors that influence foot care at Bayongbong Health Center. Method: This Research conducted using quantitative approach. The population in this research amounted to 35 respondents using total sampling technique. The instrument used was questionnaire which included: demographic data, health characteristics, knowledge and foot care behavior using the Nothingham Assessment of Functional Foot care (NAFF) questionnaire. Result: The result showed that most of the respondents had poor foot care behavior and almost half were in the vulnerable pre-elderly age 45-59 years with the sex of mostly women with an education level almost half elementary school, most of the income of respondents was > 1.8 M with the duration of suffering DM was mostly ≥ 3 years old and most respondents had good knowledge. Conclusion: From the result of the research, there needs to be education related to foot care that is more specific and more emphasized about the importance of good behavior in foot care, while the behaviors that need to be improved are foot hygiene, foot examination, footwear selection, prevention and management of injuries.

Background:Maintaining genital hygiene is important for females to maintain their reproductive health. Hormonal changes during puberty, vaginal moisture, anatomical location of the vagina and poor genital hygiene can increase the risk of reproductive tract infection, abnormal vaginal discharge, etc. Knowledge, infection, attitude and practice affect genital hygiene behavior amongst adolescents. Objective:This study aimed to identify elementary school students knowledge, attitude and practice towards genital hygiene at administrative area of Jatinangor health center. Method:This study used descriptive quantitative method with a population of elementary school students entering early adolescence (n=721). Samples were recruited using accidental sampling technique consisting grade VI students (n=104). Data were collected using questinnaires which had been tested. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. Result:Result showed that 79 respondents (76,0%) had fair knowledge, 56 respondents (53,9%) had a favorable attitude and 55 respondents (52,9%) had a poor practice. Conclusions and Suggestions: the majority of students demostrated poor behavior toward genital hygiene. Sugest for health care staff can increase the awareness of youth by providing reproductive health related information to protect and to maintain reproductive as early is possible.

The quality of life of the elderly is influenced by physical, psychological, social and environmental factors. These four factors desperately need family support as a support system for the elderly. This study aims to determine the effect of family support intervention on the quality of life of elderly hypertension in Community Area Cipayung Puskesmas East Jakarta. The research method used quasi-experiment with control group design. The sampling strategy used multistage random sampling with 30 samples for the intervention group and 30 for the control group. This study were implemented during four weeks. Statistical test using dependent t-test and independent t-test. There was a significant difference in the mean elderly quality of life with hypertension after the intervention of family support program in the intervention group compared with the control group (M= 93.67 ± 6.08, p-value 0.012). In conclusion, this study showed that there were differences in mean older people quality of life with hypertension in the intervention group compared with the control group after the intervention of family support program. The resulting family support interventions can serve as the foundation for policy and health service providers in order to implement various interventions related to family empowerment to improve the quality of life older people with hypertension in the community.

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronical community health problem, and mostly suffered by the elderly. The elderly with DM have several symptoms at night that caused a sleep disorder and it may be affected by the poor quality of sleep. The poor quality of sleep has several negative impacts to elderly including sleepy in the daylight, a lack of attention, memory disorders, depression, easy to fall, and reduce of the quality of life. There is a need for a study that assesses the sleep quality of elderly with DM. This study used descriptive quantitative approach. The samples were chosen using total sampling technique. This study involved 47 elderly with DM in the primary health center (PHC) Garuda. The data were collected using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) Questionnaire that has been adapted for elders. The data were analyzed using distribution frequency. The results showed that the majority of elderly had a poor sleep quality (51%). All elders in this study had sleep disorders, and some of them had behavior that affected their sleep quality, such as sleeping in a bright room (n=25), sleeping in low temperature room (n=27), and consuming caffeine (n=28). Nurses in the community setting are expected to provide health education to maintenance a good sleep quality, such as the importance of sleeping in the dark and warm temperature room, and avoiding to consume caffeine.

Prolanis is a program that the purpose is to handle health problems in Indonesia. However, the participation of prolanis participants in the activities and the presents itself are still low in every month. The purpose of this study was to identify the participants about project activities in UPT Layanan Kesehatan Unpad encompasses perception, seriousness, benefits, obstacles to action and confidence. This quantitative descriptive study was conducted on 81 respondents by means of total sampling. The research data was taken using questionnaire which consisted of 46 statements developed from literature related to prolanis and previously had tested the validity with value range 0,453-0,760 and reliability with result 0,729, then data analyzed descriptively. The results showed that most prolanis participants (54.3%) had good activities with pro-public activities. In addition, there were mostly participants and no response to the disease if there were no prolanis program (50.6%), impact of prolanis (54.3%), current sensitivity of prolanis (53.1%) and belief to follow prolanis (54.3%). While almost all participants (81.5%) had information and instructions to follow prolanis. This action demonstrates good activities but there are still significant obstacles in the framework of existing projects to support existing services for UPT Layanan Kesehatan Unpad with roles to increase participation of prolanis participants.

Number of elderly in Indonesia in 2014 was reached 18.8 million lives and in 2025 would reached 36 million lives. Along with the increasing age, change of cognitive function on elderly was increased. Impaired cognitive function on elderly may caused alteration on personality and disrupting daily activity. If it took progressively, they can lead to dementia. By knowing dementia status on elderly in society it may be used as a database on developing program that related with elderly health in society. The aim of this research was to achieve description of dementia status on elderly in society. The method that used on this research was descriptive with quantitative approaches. Data collected by using Early Dementia Questionnaire (EDQ) on 98 elderlies took by used stratified random sampling technique at Puskesmas Ibrahim Adjie work area Bandung city. Univariat analysis has done to saw description of dementia status on elderly based on respondent characteristic. The result of this research obtained as many as 38 respondents with presentation 38.8% experienced early dementia and 60 respondents with 61.2% respondents belong to normal category