Biomedical Journal of Indonesia

Spinal Instability in Myogenic Low Back Pain : Stabilization Exercise Approach

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0700

Spinal instability can be caused by various conditions including an illness, trauma, and degenerative processes affecting one or more of the three spinal subsystems. These three subsystems are the spine and ligaments, back muscles, and the nervous system work synergistically to maintain spinal stability. Until now it is still difficult to identify spinal instability. Low back pain (LBP) affects 60-80% of the world's population and in the United States causes losses of around $15-50 billion each year. For several decades, a muscle training program has been the main program that recommended to solve LBP, based on the premise that the muscle subsystem is a subsystem that can be repaired and improved, a muscle training program is developed and applied in the management of NPB. This literature review focuses on aspects of stabilization exercises in the management of low back pain with and without spinal instability.

Quintet Educational Cards on Breast Cancer Patients’ Knowledge Regarding Nutrition

Mutia Nadra Maulida, Hikayati, Devin Alfira — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0700

Introduction. Nutrition is important in undergoing treatment and healing process in breast cancer patients. The incidence of malnutrition and nutritional disorders in breast cancer patients reaches 35-70% of 72 breast cancer patients. One of the factors that can influence patients' attitudes toward managing nutrition in breast cancer patients is increasing knowledge through health education. This study aims to determine the effect of quintet card educational media on breast cancer patients' level of nutrition knowledge. Methods. This type of research is a quantitative pre-experimental study with a one-group pretest-posttest design. The population in this study was breast cancer patients in the Association for Supporting Women with Breast Cancer (ASWBC). The sample in this study consisted of 27 respondents. Sampling using a purposive sampling method. The statistical analysis used in this study is the marginal homogeneity test. Results. The analysis showed a p-value of 0.000 (α ≤ 0.05), which showed a significant difference in knowledge about nutrition in breast cancer patients before and after health education was carried out through the quintet card educational media. Nutrition knowledge is urgently needed by breast cancer patients and the quintet card educational media can be used as information material about nutrition in breast cancer patients and can be used in activities in the ASWBC. Conclusion. This educational media can be used by breast cancer patients following SOP as a play guide and as a media for health education.

The Relationship Between Personal Hygiene And The Incidence Of Pediculosis Capitis Among Students Of Sungai Beringin 02 Public Elementary School, District 50 Kota

Letvi Mona, Madhuri Dixit, Nadia Purnama Dewi — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0700

Introduction. Pediculosis capitis or commonly known as head lice is a skin infection that attacks the human head. It is caused by the ectoparasite Pediculus Humanus Capitis, which lives by sucking blood on the scalp of infected people. One of the factors that can be related to pediculosis capitis is personal hygiene. The general objective of this research is to determine the relationship between personal hygiene and the incidence of pediculosis capitis in students at Sungai Beringin 02 Public Elementary School, Kabupaten 50 Kota. Methods. This research uses an analytical observational method with a cross-sectional approach, namely a study conducted to study the dynamics of the correlation between two variables. The accessible population in this research is all students of Sungai Beringin 02 Public Elementary School, Kabupaten 50 Kota in 2023. Results. This study shows 63.6% of students are not infested with pediculosis capitis. The highest class infested with pediculosis capitis is class 3-4, there are 50%, 95% of students who are infested with pediculosis capitis are female, and 65.5% of students have good personal hygiene. The results of the research show that there is a relationship between personal hygiene and the incidence of pediculosis capitis in students because 68.4% of students who are infested with pediculosis capitis do not have good personal hygiene. Conclusion. The results of bivariate analysis show that there is a significant relationship between the level of personal hygiene and the incidence of Pediculosis Capitis in students at Sungai Beringin 02 Public Elementary School with a p-value of 0.001.

The Relationship of Fat Intake and Body Fat Percentage in Medical Students

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0700

Introduction. Obesity is an excessive fat accumulation in the body, now the prevalence is increasing in the group aged>18 years based on Body Mass Index (BMI). Nowadays body fat percentage has been declared to assess the risk factor of disease-related body weight better than BMI, people with proportioned weight had excessive body fat percentage evenly. Excessive fat intake is one of the important factors for obesity. The objective of this study was to analyze the association between fat intake with body fat percentage. Methods. This study was conducted with a cross-sectional design on 275 medical faculty students of Sriwijaya University, starting from August until December 2017 by collecting primary data through completing forms, food records, questionnaires, and physical examinations. Results. The results were analyzed statistically using chi-square. 67.3% of subjects had excessive body fat percentage and 50.2% with excessive fat intake. Results by the chi-square test indicate a negative association between fat intake with body fat percentage (p value=0.184). Conclusion. Fat intake with body fat percentage was negatively associated.