<em>Covid-19 outbreak enforced teachers and students to adapt to the situation by doing online learning which automatically involves some online learning applications and platforms. These programs allow teachers and students to conduct the teaching and learning activities even though they are currently in different places. Therefore, choosing and using appropriate and relevant learning applications and platforms could support the online teaching and learning process to take place. This research attempts to investigate platforms and applications used by EFL teachers in Surabaya during the remote teaching. Also, factors interfering the use particular applications and platforms were studied to see teachers’ considerations in preparing online teaching platforms and applications. There are 31 EFL teachers in Surabaya who teach senior high school students participating in this research. A questionnaire and a follow-up interview were employed to obtain research data. The result revealed that there are four categories of online learning applications found in this research, including Learning Management System, Content maker, Video Conference as well as chat and messages applications. Meanwhile, four factors interfering teachers to choose and use the platform and applications were revealed: application features, school’s policy, teachers’ familiarity, and financial consideration.</em>

Background Medication adherence plays an essential role in controlling blood pressure to reduce morbidity and mortality of hypertension disease. Thus, this study aimed to determine the association of medication adherence measured by self-reported pill count with blood pressure levels among patients at several community health centers in Surabaya. Methods Adherence was assessed using the pill count method by comparing the total number of antihypertension drugs taken with the prescribed drugs. The inclusion criteria involved hypertensive patients who received antihypertension drugs, specifically adults and elderly, except the pregnant woman. The patient blood pressure was measured by healthcare workers in the targeted community health centers. Descriptive and multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed to assess factors associated with medication adherence with blood pressure levels. Results A total of 264 hypertensive outpatients participating in this study, 77.65% of participants were adherent to antihypertensive drugs based on the pill count method, and 40.91% of participants had controlled blood pressure. Patients with uncontrolled blood pressure were about six times (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]: 6.15; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.694–14.039; P = 0.000) more likely to have non-adherent medication than patients with controlled blood pressure. Reciprocally, non-adherent participants (pill count < 80%) were about six times (AOR: 6.081; 95% CI: 2.672–13.838; P = 0.000) more likely to have uncontrolled blood pressure compared to adherent patients (pill count ≥ 80%). Age less than 40 years old (AOR: 5.814; 95% CI: 1.519–22.252; P = 0.01) and having middle school educational level (AOR: 0.387; 95% CI: 0.153–0.974; P = 0.045) were found to be independent factors associated with uncontrolled blood pressure. Conclusions The result showed that non-adherence to antihypertension drugs is associated with uncontrolled blood pressure. Then, age could be associated with uncontrolled blood pressure. Thus, pharmacists and other healthcare providers should pay attention to improving medication adherence and maintaining the controlled blood pressure.

This study addresses how well Indonesian second language learners of English apply the English tense-aspect system. Further, the present study attempts to investigate and better understand the process of making sense of the English tenses and aspects the students have applied in their academic writing. Thus, error analysis procedure is employed to see whether the students have applied correct tenses and aspects in a relevant context. Subsequently, quantitative analysis was conducted involving sixteen pieces of the student writings. Employing the procedure of Error Analysis (Corder, 1981), this study focuses on the covert errors that the students frequently made, which allow in-depth investigation beyond the grammatical errors. Additionally, to see a pedagogical implication of this research, a correlation between the number of errors and the score obtained from the writings were also investigated. The results revealed that the students' attitude toward the use of tenses and aspects in an academic context is considerably low. It was frequently found that the students employed a particular tense and aspect in an irrelevant context. Also, a weak correlation between the two variables measured, the number of errors and scores, was revealed.