AIM: This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of training in improving health cadres’ ability in early detection and risk factors of stunting in toddlers. METHODS: The research method used was a quasi-experimental non-randomized pre- and post-test only control design. The independent variable was cadre training. The training was conducted through learning activities on health cadres using lecture method, question and answer method, and brainstorming accompanied by training booklets/modules and demonstrations. The dependent variable was knowledge, attitudes, and skills in detecting stunting and risk factors for stunting in children under-five. There were 53 health cadres as samples scattered in the Tomini Community Health Center with the purposive sampling technique. The data analysis technique used was a parametric statistical paired sample t-test. RESULTS: Training of health cadres effectively increased health cadres’ ability to detect stunting and risk factors for stunting in children under-five. The different test results for each variable that showed the pre-post-test p-value for knowledge, attitudes, and health cadres’ skills were 0.000, smaller than the significance level of 0.05 (p < 0.05). Besides, the mean score of each variable obtained after training for health cadres was more significant than before training, including knowledge 17.392 >12.264, attitudes 33.603 >27.226, and skills 90.019 >62113. Those are means that cadres’ training effectively increased the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of health cadres in detecting stunting and risk factors for stunting in children under-five. CONCLUSION: Training of health cadres effectively increases the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of health cadres about early detection and risk factors of stunting in the working area of Tomini Public Health Centre, Parigi Moutong Regency.

Cuci tangan dengan sabun pada air mengalir adalah langkah sederhana dan efektif untuk mencegah penularan penyakit fecal-oral dan penyakit menular lainnya pada anak usia sekolah. Tujuan penelitian untuk mengetahui pengaruh ketersediaan sarana cuci tangan terhadap praktik cuci tangan pakai sabun di sekolah dasar. Penelitian kuasi eksperimen the nonrandomized pretest posttest control group design. Populasi penelitian adalah siswa SDIT Hidayatullah Palu dan SDN 08 Kecamatan Tanantovea Kabupaten Donggala. Jumlah sampel 60 orang terdiri dari 49 orang pada kelompok perlakuan dan 11 orang pada kelompok kontrol.Data dikumpulkan dengan cara menilai pre-posttest. Instrumen penelitian berupa kuesioner dan angket. Variabel bebas adalah sarana cuci tangan dan sabun sedangkan variabel terikatnya adalah praktik cuci tangan pakai sabun pada air mengalir. Data dianalisis untuk melihat pengaruh intervensi terhadap variabel dependen. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dari 30,61% siswa yang sering mencuci tangan saat berada di sekolah meningkat menjadi 67,34% setelah tersedia sarana CTPS, sebanyak 49 responden 91,83% mencuci tangan di wastafel, dan sisanya 8,17% di kamar mandi/wc/kran mesjid. Penggunaan sabun saat cuci tangan mengalami peningkatan dari 30,61% menjadi 87,75%dan semuanya menggunakan air mengalir (100%). Hasil uji Mc Nemar menunjukkan bahwa nilai ɑ (0,05) > p, yang berarti bahwa ada perbedaan praktik CTPS sebelum dan setelah tersedia sarana CTPS pada siswa sekolah dasar. Kesimpulan: ketersediaan sarana CTPS efektif terhadap praktik CTPS di sekolah dasar. Pihak sekolah diharapkan agar dapat menyediakan sabun dan air mengalir secara regular sehingga perilaku CTPS menjadisuatukebiasaan bagi siswa sekolah dasar.

Efforts to prevent and control dengue fever in Palu City are still inadequate, the results of a survey carried out by officers show that community participation in eradicating mosquito nests (PSN), especially in closing, draining and burying (3M) and plus (plus) activities such as: sprinkling larvacide larvae, keeping larvae-eating fish. This effort involves larva monitoring interpreters (jumantik) but the role of independent jumantik is not yet optimal. This is indicated by the larva free rate which is still below the standard of 85%. The target of this community service activity is the Jumantik Mandiri Cadre at Citra Permai Indah 3 Complex (CPI3) in Talise Valangguni Village, Palu City, totaling 25 people. The method used is lecture and question and answer. Lectures were conducted to disseminate information on dengue prevention, how to monitor larvae and field practice in the form of larva monitoring in the CPI3 housing complex. The activity was carried out from May to June 2022 at the CPI-3 housing complex, Talise Valangguni Village, Palu City. The results of the activity show the role of the independent Jumantik Cadre. After receiving education and guidance from the service team, it increased up to 100% and the larva-free rate (ABJ) in monitoring from the first week-1 to week-3 always increased up to 98%. Providing education can increase the role of independent jumantik cadres and effectively increase the larva free rate. ABSTRAK Upaya pencegahan dan pengendalian penyakit DBD di Kota Palu masih belum memadai, hasil survei yang telah dilaksanakan oleh petugas, menunjukkan bahwa partisipasi masyarakat dalam pemberantasan sarang nyamuk (PSN)  terutama dalam kegiatan menutup, menguras dan mengubur  (3M) dan ditambah (plus) seperti: menaburkan larvasida pembasmi jentik, memelihara ikan pemakan jentik. Upaya ini melibatkan juru pemantau jentik (jumantik) namun peran jumantik mandiri belum optimal. Hal tersebut ditandai dengan Angka Bebas Jentik masih dibawah standar 85%. Sasaran kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini adalah Kader Jumantik Mandiri Komplek Citra Permai Indah 3 (CPI3) Di Kelurahan Talise Valangguni Kota palu berjumlah 25 orang. Metode yang digunakan adalah ceramah dan tanya jawab. Ceramah dilakukan untuk mensosialisasikan informasi tentang, Pencegahan DBD, cara melakukan monitoring jentik dan praktek lapangan berupa pemantauan jentik di komplek perumahan CPI3. Kegiatan dilaksanakan  Mei – Juni 2022 Di Komplek perumahan CPI-3 Kelurahan Talise Valangguni Kota palu. Hasil kegiatan menunjukkan Peran Kader Jumantik Mandiri Setelah memperoleh edukasi dan bimbingan dari tim pengabdi mengalami peningkatan hingga 100% serta Angka Bebas Jentik (ABJ) dalam pemantauan mulai dari minggu-1 pertama sampai minggu-3 selalu mengalami peningkatan hingga mencapai 98%.Pemberian edukasi dapat meningkatkan peran kader jumantik mandiri serta efektif meningkatkan Angka bebas Jentik.

Background: Efforts to prevent and control DHF in Palu City are still inadequate. The lack of community participation in the implementation of 3M causes the density of Aedes aegypti larvae to be high. Objective: To analyze the knowledge, attitudes and behavior of larva monitoring interpreters before and after being given health education in reducing dengue cases. Methods: This type of research is a quasi-experimental, with one group pre and posttest design. Carried out in Palu City, Central Sulawesi Province and Pasang Kayu Regency, West Sulawesi Province. The sample size is 98 Jumantik cadres. The interview study instrument used a set of previously validated and tested questionnaires. Informed consent was taken from all respondents and confidentiality was guaranteed throughout the study. Data were analyzed using SPSS with Paired T-test dependent   Results: Knowledge about ways to prevent DHF increased the highest from the pre-test (20.10) post-test (51.77) which means that it increased by 32.3% p = 0.000, the smallest increase in knowledge about the spread of DHF was the pre-test value ( 12.9) post-test (14.2) means an increase of 1.3% p=0.003. The attitude that increased the most was the effort to control DHF with a pre-test value (9.4) post-test (48.2%) increased by 38.8% p = 0.000, while the smallest increase was the attitude of responsibility for controlling DHF with a pre-test value. -test (53.32) post-test (53.50) increased by 0.18% p=0.737. The behavior with the highest increase in value was about larval control with a pre-test score (4.75) post-test (37.78) means an increase of 33.0% p = 0.000, while the smallest increase is the behavior of draining the water tank with the pre-test (26.87) post-test (35.83) increasing 8.96% p = 0.002. Conclusion: Health education through counseling methods is effective in increasing the knowledge, attitudes and behavior of Jumantik Cadres in preventing dengue fever in Palu City, Central Sulawesi and Pasangkayu Regency, West Sulawesi

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) globally is still very high, TB is an infectious disease that causes many deaths in Indonesia, in 2016 there were 274 cases of death per day in Indonesia and reached 1,020,000 people. The proportion of TB in Puskesmas Sabang in 2014 there were 13 cases, 29 cases in 2015, 23 cases in 2016, 27 cases in 2017, and in 2018 as many as 30 cases, TB was caused by several risk factors such as smoking, Housing conditions, and education. AIM: Research aims to know the risk factors incidence of TB disease in Sabang Regional Public Health Center, District Dampelas, Donggala. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Study case-control using a document of TB as well as structured interviews using a questionnaire, the case was a patient who suffered from TB in Puskesmas Sabang in 2017, and control is one that has the same sex that is at the Community Health Centre (Puskesmas) Sabang, comparison cases and controls were 1:1, 30 cases and 30 controls. RESULTS: Smoking habit with p = 0.020 (odds ratio [OR] = 7.120, confidence interval [CI] = 1.358–37.337) and house humidity with p = 0.000 (OR = 26.318, CI = 4.399–157.474) were the most dominant risk factors for TB incidence, while the type of gender, education and knowledge are protective against the incidence of TB. CONCLUSION: Smoking habits and house humidity are the most dominant risk factors for the incidence of TB in the work area of the Sabang Health Center, Dampelas District, Donggala Regency. Health workers should increase education to the public about the dangers of smoking and the requirements of healthy housing.