<p>This study aimed to determine the prevalence of menstrual hygiene and the association between mother’s role function and menstrual hygiene among early adolescent girls. This cross-sectional study used a simple random sampling technique. The target population including early adolescent girls aged 12-15 years old, had menarche. Hence, 367 respondents in this study passed the analysis's inclusion criteria. Multivariable logistic regression was used to determine the association. There were 46.32 % of respondents noticed the prevalence of good menstrual hygiene. There were 170 out of 367 respondents who reported the presence of good menstrual hygiene. The ultimate model of a multiple logistic regression designated that mother and information exposure support (adj. OR=6.89, 95% CI: 3.84–12.38, p<0.001; adj. OR=2.17, 95% CI: 1.36–3.45, p=0.001) were meaningfully linked by the bad menstrual hygiene. Other significant covariate factors were organization (adj. OR=1.79, 95% CI: 1.10–2.91, p=0.018). The study found a high prevalence of good menstrual hygiene. Mother support, information exposure, and organization were linked with menstrual hygiene among early adolescent girls. </p>
The poor elderly are people aged 60 years and over, who experience socio-economic problems so they do not carry out their health checks due to limitations. This community service aims to detect health problems early in elderly poor people who have difficulty accessing health facilities due to their limitations. This early detection of health is carried out free of charge with the aim of helping poor elderly people who cannot carry out health checks due to various obstacles, held at the Siti Khadijah Orphanage, Jalan Merdeka Samarinda, on September 24, 2022. Participants in the detection of health problems consisted of 51 elderly people, checking their blood pressure, weight, height, current blood sugar, uric acid, and cholesterol. From this examination, the highest number of participants were the elderly as much as 90.2%, the elderly who were detected to have high blood pressure as much as 60.8%, had diabetes mellitus as much as 21.6%, had high cholesterol levels based on sex as much as 35.3%, and who experienced hypercholesterolemia as much as 43.1%, and 45.1% who are obese.
Introduction: It has been revealed several times that children born to adolescent mothers tend to experience problems in health, growth, and development, also social problems, which continued until now and have even tended to get worse due to various factors such as a pandemic, deteriorating economic conditions, and decreased sense of care among human beings. It is associated with the unpreparedness of adolescent mothers to face the dual roles carry out as mothers and as adolescents themselves. The study aims to explore and describe children’s condition of adolescent mothers during their motherhood in the community Methods: This is an ethnography study, collected data by observation, in-depth interviews, and field notes to explore behaviors, beliefs, values, and perceptions of adolescent mothers about children’s health status. The main key informants were 20 participants, the data were analyzed with content analysis. Results: The result revealed 3 children’s conditions of adolescent mothers in the community which involve: 1) Children’s health status, 2) Children’s breastfeeding status, and 3) Children’s immunization status. Conclusion: Many of their children have health problems at birth and at this time, and it was related to health problems during pregnancy. The low coverage of exclusive breastfeeding and basic immunization is caused by low support from families, inconsistent cultures with beliefs, incomplete information, and the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic. Stigmatize as adolescent mothers cause they lack carry out regular check-ups on their children.
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