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Introduction: Providing a warm feeling to a particular area of one of the lower backs using warm water and a jar generates warmth on parts of the body to reduce pain. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of warm compresses against back pain in third trimester pregnant women in a Public Health Center in Pekanbaru. Methods: The study used a quasi-experiment design with a non-equivalent control group research design employing a purposive sampling technique with a total sample of 30 respondents. The measuring instrument used is the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS). Statistical analysis used the dependent t-test and independent t-test. Results: Univariate analysis results showed that 90.0% of respondents were 20-35 years old, while the distribution of high school education level was 36.7%. The highest distribution of work as housewives was 43.3%, with the highest gravida status being multiparous was 50.0%. The majority of the Minang respondents were 40.0%. The highest gestational age was 30 weeks experienced by 23.3% respondents. The average pain intensity of the pretest experimental group was 4.53 and the posttest value was 3.07, with a difference of 146, while the control group pretest control group was 4.40 and posttest which was 4.07, there was no significant difference between the pre-test and post-test in the control group. The results of statistical analysis showed that p value = 0.001 <α (0.05), so it was found that the warm compress effectively reduces the intensity of back pain in third trimester pregnant women. The warm compress can be recommended as a complementary therapy for back pain.

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Pendidikan kesehatan berbasis the Health Belief Model menekankan persepsi terhadap kerentanan, keparahan, manfaat dan hambatan terhadap suatu penyakit yang dapat mengancam kesehatan mereka, sehingga penderita hipertensi perlu diberikan pengetahuan untuk mengatasi penyakit hipertensi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui efektivitas pendidikan kesehatan berbasis the Health Belief Model pada penderita hipertensi yang telah dilakukan di wilayah kerja Puskesmas Payung Sekaki kota Pekanbaru menggunakan desain penelitian pre- eksperimen dengan rancangan penelitian one group pretest-posttest design. Sampel dalam penelitian berjumlah 30 orang diambil menggunakan teknik purposive sampling dengan memperhatikan kriteria inklusi. Alat ukur yang digunakan adalah kuesioner yang telah teruji validitas dan reliabilitasnya. Analisis yang digunakan adalah analisis univariat dan analisa bivariat dengan uji t Dependen dan uji Wilcoxon. Hasil penelitian menunjukan perbedaan pada skor pengetahuan, persepsi dan perilaku setelah diberikan pendidikan kesehatan berbasis the Health Belief Model dengan nilai p (0,000) < α(0,05).  Pendidikan kesehatan berbasis the Health Belief Model tentang hipertensi dapat meningkatkan pengetahuan, persepsi dan perilaku penderita hipertensi dalam mengatasi penyakit hipertensi. Hasil penelitian ini diharapkan dapat diterapkan dalam memberikan intervensi keperawatan untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan, persepsi dan perilaku penderita hipertensi dalam mengatasi penyakit hipertensi.

Background: Health care staff may experience in dealing with medical waste in their health care activities. The experiences are various and challenging, ranging from producing the waste to disposing of it. Objectives: This study aimed to analyze and synthesize the findings of existing qualitative researches related to experiences of health care staff in dealing with medical waste. Methods: This meta-synthesis collected recent research published from 2013 up to 2019. The articles were searched using online databases: Proquest, EBSCO, CINAHL, Springer, and Pubmed. The keywords using in the search were medical waste, hospital waste, health care waste, healthcare professionals, healthcare workers, and qualitative. There were 381 articles found from the search. Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Checklist for Qualitative Research was used to assess the articles. Six articles were finally included and synthesized using the meta-ethnographic approach. Results: Three themes emerged from the study: consequence of health care, ways to handle medical waste, and obstacles in managing medical waste. Conclusion: Medical waste is inevitable and collaboration, as well as cooperation among health care staff and stakeholders is needed to manage medical waste properly.