Purpose Older adults living in nursing homes may become vulnerable because of errors or incidents; it is necessary to create a positive safety culture to minimise such occurrences. However, safety culture is still a prevailing issue in Indonesian nursing homes. This study aims to examine factors related to resident safety culture in nursing homes located in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach This study used a cross-sectional research design and involved 13 nursing homes in East Java province, Indonesia. Multistage cluster samplings were used to determine the respondents of this study. The respondents included 219 employees: managers, health care, supportive and administrative staff. The Indonesian version of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire was used to measure safety culture. Findings Most of the respondents (68.5%) had a positive perspective on the nursing home’s safety culture. Staffs who had worked for six to ten years in the nursing home were 17.07 times more likely to have positive perspective on safety culture with a p-value of 0.0002. Respondents who gave direct care also had a positive perception of safety culture with a p-value of 0.008. Research limitations/implications Broader insight into safety culture needs to be provided to all staff in the nursing home. Safety topics should be included in the orientation session for new staff. Originality/value The staff’s work experience and direct care have a significant connection to safety culture.

Introduction: As one gets older, health problems also increase, one of the problems was loneliness. The phenomenon of loneliness was very important because loneliness has an impact on quality of life and psychological well-being on elderly. The purpose of this study to determine correlation between loneliness and psychological well-being of elderly living in community.Method: This was correlational study with cross-sectional approach. Total respondents were 152 elderly aged 60-70 years at Kelurahan Sananwetan Kota Blitar. This research was collected by cluster random sampling. Independent variable in this research was loneliness, while dependent variable was psychological well-being. Data was collected by using UCLA Loneliness Scale Version 3 by Rusell (1996) questionnaire and Scale of Psychological Well-Being by Ryff (1989) questionnaire, then analyzed by spearman rho correlation statistical test with significance level at p ≤ 0.05Result: The result showed that value of p = 0.000 and r = -0,864 that indicate a significant negative correlation between loneliness and psychological well-being in elderly.Conclusion: Loneliness was an indicator of individual psychological well-being, this means individuals who felt loneliness would have reduced their level of well-being or happiness. Otherwise individuals who were not loneliness would be prosperous or happy in their lives. So, that nurses should support elderly person to be active. Further research should make some schedule like exercise or gardening so that loneliness would be decrease and psychological well-being would reduced.

Cervical cancer is currently a global health problem. One of cervical cancer prevention is perform early detection. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between women’s perceived severity of cervical cancer and the regularity of early detection of cervical cancer. The research design was cross sectional. The research subject were women aged 30-50 years in working area of the Kalisat community health center in Jember Regency East Java as much as 92 womens with inclusion criteria was women who had been married for more than 3 years.The sampling technique was simple random sampling. The research instrument used questionare that has been tested for reliability validity. The results showed that most of respondents have poor perceived of severity (63%) and most of respondents have poor regularity of early detection (74%). The result of spearman rank test analysis showed that there was a relationship between women’s perceived severity of cervical cancer and the regularity of early detection of cervical cancer with p value = 0.000. Women need an intervention to improve their perceived severity of cervical cancer so that they can prevent cervical cancer with regular early detection Keywords: perceived severity; cervical cancer; early detection ABSTRAK Kanker serviks saat ini merupakan masalah kesehatan global. Salah satu kanker serviks adalah melakukan deteksi dini. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menganalisis hubungan antara persepsi perempuan tentang keparahan kanker serviks terhadap keteraturan melakukan deteksi dini kanker serviks. Design penelitian adalah cross sectional. Subyek penelitian adalah perempuan usia 30-50 tahun di wilayah kerja Puskesmas Kalisat di Kabupaten Jember Jawa Timur sebanyak 92 perempuan dengan kriteria inklusi perempuan yang telah menikah lebih dari 3 tahun. Teknik sampling menggunakan simple random sampling. Instrumen penelitian menggunakan kuesioner yang telah diuji validitas dan reliabilitas. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan sebagian besar responden memiliki persepsi keparahan kanker serviks yang kurang (63%) dan sebanyak besar responden memiliki keteraturan melakukan deteksi dini kanker serviks yang kurang (74%). Hasil uji spearman rank test menunjukkan ada hubungan antara persepsi perempuan tentang keparahan kanker serviks terhadap keteraturan melakukan deteksi dini kanker serviks dengan nilai p=0.000. Perempuan memerlukan suatu intervensi untuk meningkatkan persepsi mereka tentang keparahan kanker serviks agar perempuan dapat melakukan pencegahan kanker serviks dengan deteksi dini secara teratur. Kata kunci: persepsi keparahan; kanker serviks; deteksi dini

Persons with disabilities in Indonesia still experience negative stigma in society. Children with special needs are seen as burdensome, troublesome, embarrassing and useless. Because parents are embarrassed, the child is hidden sometimes the child is not schooled. The cause of these social problems is because the community does not understand about children with special needs. Efforts made to overcome these problems are education about children with special needs to cadres and motivation to parents. Cadres are social workers who are expected to be able to provide socialization to local residents. The second effort carries out motivation for ABK parents to be able to provide the best care for their children. The family is the first and foremost place in children's education. Care of children with special needs that are difficult is a burden for families. Support for the family aims to keep the family excited, able to go through difficult stages and not lose motivation in raising children with special needs. Purchasing educational toys to stimulate the growth and development of children with special needs.abstrakPenyandang disabilitas di Indonesia masih mengalami stigma negatif di masyarakat. Anak berkebutuhan khusus dianggap sebagai beban, merepotkan, memalukan dan tidak berguna. Karena orang tua malu maka anak disembunyikan kadang anak tidak disekolahkan. Penyebab permasalahan sosial tersebut karena masyarakat tidak paham tentang anak berkebutuhan khusus. Upaya yang dilakukan untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut adalah edukasi tentang anak berkebutuhan khusus kepada kader dan motivasi kepada orang tua. Kader merupakan tenaga sosial yang diharapkan mampu memberi sosialisasi kepada warga sekitar. Upaya yang kedua melaksanakan motivasi kepada orang tua ABK agar mampu memberikan perawatan terbaik untuk anaknya. Keluarga merupakan tempat pertama dan utama dalam pendidikan anak. Perawatan anak berkebutuhan khusus yang sulit merupakan beban tersendiri bagi keluarga. Dukungan kepada keluarga bertujuan agar keluarga tetap bersemangat, mampu melewati tahap–tahap sulit dan tidak kehilangan motivasi dalam membesarkan anak berkebutuhan khusus. Pembelian alat permainan edukatif untuk menstimulasi pertumbuhan dan perkembangan anak berkebutuhan khusus.

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