In various countries, approximately 80% of patients use herbal medicine, both in single form or in combination with antihypertensive drugs, for the treatment of hypertension. Therefore, this research summarized studies on the simultaneous use of herbal medicines and antihypertensive drugs among hypertensive patients in the community. A literature search was conducted on PubMed in April 2020, and the following keywords were used: “herbal medicines” and “antihypertensive patients.” In total, 15 of 263 articles were found to be eligible in the initial research. Results showed that studies were performed in different countries worldwide including America and those in Europe, Asia, and Africa between 1960 and 2020. The factors associated with the use of herbal medicines and antihypertensive drugs were age, gender, education level, income, and residence. Herbal medicines and antihypertensive drugs are simultaneously utilized primarily due to their safety and high efficacy. Herbal medicine is frequently recommended by friends or colleagues, herbalists, advertisements, and health workers. Garlic is the most common herbal medicine used along with antihypertensive drugs. The side effects of combination therapy with herbal medicines and prescription drugs for the management of antihypertension include shortness of breath and cough, ulcers, diarrhea, knee cramps, and abdominal discomfort. The lack of communication between patients and health care workers could cause an increase in the simultaneous use of herbal medicines and antihypertensive drugs. Therefore, effective communication among health care workers and appropriate care are important in preventing the side effects and other risks of combined therapy.

<em>The aims of this study are to test the effect of financial statement pre-sentation, accessibility of financial statements, and government</em> <em>internal control system to the transparency and accountability in local government financial management. The population of the research is local government work unit in Lamongan Regency collected through survey questionnaires. </em><em>The samples of this research are 128 respondents which choosen based on purposive sampling criteria. Analysis methods applied in hypothesis testing is multiple regression analysis by using f-test and t-test. The results show that the financial statement presentation and government internal control system do not affect the transparency. Further, accessibility financial statement affects the transparency and financial statement presentation; however, accessi-bility financial statement does not affect the accountability in local financial management. Moreover, government internal control system affects the accountability in financial management.</em>

The purpose of this article is to analyze the effect of student perceptions about the role of micro teaching courses on student teaching readiness. This type of research is quantitative descriptive. The population of this research is the 2014 UNP FE Economics Education students who have completed the micro teaching course and the Education Field Experience Program course totaling 84 people. The sampling technique is saturated sampling (total sampling) so that the entire population is sampled. Research data are primary data collected by questionnaire. Instrument testing uses validity and reliability tests. Data were analyzed by descriptive and inductive analysis using normality test, heterocedasticity test, hypothesis testing using simple regression, t test and coefficient of determination with α = 0.05. The results showed that there was a significant and positive influence between students' perceptions of  the role of micro teaching courses on student teaching readiness, namely sig 0,000 <0,05. Keywords: Perception, Role, Micro Teaching, Teaching Readiness

<p>Integration of technology in science instruction in special education context can be done within the technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) framework. Therefore, special education teachers are expected to have a good level of TPACK. This study aimed to explore the level of teachers TPACK in science instruction for students with special needs and to compare the TPACK level of teachers based on their gender. This research used a quantitative approach with survey method. The respondents of this study were special education teachers (N= 44). The data collection method was through a survey using the TPACK survey instrument. The validation result used the Pearson Correlation showed value per statement ranging from 0.504 - 0.904. Reliability showed in the Cronbach's coefficient Alpha for internal consistency value of 0.856 (high). The data analysis technique used was the descriptive statistical analysis technique and the independent sample t test. The results showed that the total average of all TPACK domain is concluded in good category with mean score 81.29. The t test calculation showed that the t value (0.123) is less than the critical t value in the t table (2.085). The p value obtained was 0.90, greater than 0.05. Therefore, Ho is accepted. The issue of gender equality that has begun to be implemented in Indonesia can be the reason for the loss of technological mastery differences. In conclusion, TPACK mastery of special education teachers in science instruction was not differentiated by teacher gender with p&gt;0.05.</p>

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