Dalam masa Adaptasi Kebiasaan Baru, angka kejadian COVID-19 di Jawa Barat masih meningkat. Kasus terkonfirmasi yang masih meningkat menuntut masyarakat harus siap untuk mengendalikan dan mencegah infeksi semakin menyebar dengan meningkatkan sistem daya tahan tubuh. Pengetahuan masyarakat akan hal ini terutama dalam memanfaatkan sumber daya yang ada di sekitar keluarga sebagai suplemen untuk meningkatkan sistem imun masih belum optimal. Tujuan dari pengabdian masyarakat ini adalah memberikan edukasi mengenai sistem imunitas dan pemanfaatan bahan alam untuk meningkatkan sistem imun yang dilanjutkan dengan tutorial pembuatan produk herbal dari TOGA untuk meningkatkan sistem imunitas tubuh. Metode pelaksanaan kegiatan adalah melalui metode daring dimana kuisioner, edukasi, penyebaran informasi, dan pemberian tutorial dilakukan melalui platform Youtube, WhatsApp Grup, dan Instagram. Tahapan kegiatan meliputi identifikasi kebutuhan masyarakat, Perancangan kegiatan, survei pengetahuan awal masyarakat, pemberian edukasi dan tutorial melalui poster edukasi dan video tutorial, Pemberian masker, bahan baku, dan contoh produk herbal jadi siap konsumsi untuk bahan praktek simulasi oleh tim Penggerak PKK dan Evaluasi kegiatan dengan mengukur peningkatan pengetahuan dan minat masyarakat. Hasil dari kegiatan ini adalah terdapat peningkatan pengetahuan dan minat masyarakat dalam menghadapi COVID-19 dimana sebelum adanya edukasi, tingkat pengetahuan terbanyak adalah tingkat pengetahuan yang cukup. Setelah adanya edukasi terjadi peningkatan pengetahuan yaitu menjadi baik (75%) dan tidak ada lagi yang memiliki tingkat pengetahuan kurang. Minat warga untuk mengolah dan menggunakan produk atau sediaan herbal siap saji juga meningkat.
Long-term therapy is needed for all chronic diseases such as Diabetes Mellitus (DM) so that it can affect the quality of life. Various characteristic factors can affect the quality of life such as socio-demographic and clinical. This study aims to obtain an overview of patient characteristics and analyze characteristic factors that can affect the quality of life of Prolanis type 2 DM patients at several Bandung City Public Health Care from February to May 2019. A total of 116 patients met the inclusion criteria as the study sample. The instrument used is a Diabetes Quality of Life Clinical Trial Questionnaire (DQLCTQ) in Indonesian with a cross-sectional method. The results of the description of patient characteristics are more women, age 63 years, not working, education high school, marital status, not smoking, moderate-severe physical activity, comorbidities, duration of DM < 6 years, and fasting blood glucose levels >126 mg/dL. The results of the analysis using the Mann-Whitney test showed that the difference in the quality of life with characteristic factors is not significantly different (p>0.05) and the results of the analysis with linear regression showed that there were no factors that affected the quality of life.
Pneumonia is an infection caused by microorganisms. It is characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma. Most of inpatients with pneumonia get more than five drugs. It causes increase the risk of potential drug-drug interactions. Drug interactions can cause adverse drug reactions. The purpose of this study is to identify potential drug-drug interactions and to determine the prevalence and risk of potential drug-drug interactions. This research is cross-sectional study with retrospective data collection. Data retrieval from medical records of pneumonia patients at a hospital in Bandung from January to December 2018. They are 480 potential drug-drug interactions that can be identified. The interactions included 261 major interactions (54.38%), 214 moderate interactions (44.58%), and 5 minor interactions (1.04%). From total of 402 patients, 48.51% of patients experienced potential drug-drug interactions. There is a significant relationship between the number of drugs and the potential drug-drug interactions (p-value < 0,05). Patients who received > 6 drugs have 10,1 times higher risk of potential drug-drug interactions than those who received < 6 drugs (95% CI 6,0-16,9).
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