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Relaxation Progressive Muscle Program on Exercise Behavior and Clinical Outcomes among Hypertension Patients

10.11591/ijphs.v5i4.4842
Rian Adi Pamungkas , Wahyu Kirana , Florensa Florensa
The objective of this study was to examine the effect of relaxation progressive muscle program on exercise behavior and clinical outcomes among Patients with Hypertension in a Community Setting, in Indonesia. A quasi-experimental, two group, pre-test and post-test design was used in this study. The experimental group received relaxation progressive muscle program, whereas the control group did not receive the program. 30 subjects in the experimental group and 30 subjects in the control group completed the program, respectively. The results of this study indicated that significantly differences on exercise behavior (p = 0.000), blood pressure level (p = 0.000) and cholesterol total level (p = 0.000) between the experimental group and control group. The relaxation progressive muscle program was absolutely effective to improve the exercise behavior, blood pressure level and cholesterol total level among patients with hypertension. Further studies should be recognized by using larger groups over a longer time frame and Health care providers also should focus in promoting this program among patients with hypertension.
Volume: 5
Issue: 4
Page: 400-405
Publish at: 2016-12-01

Optimization of Makespan in Job Shop Scheduling Problem by Golden Ball Algorithm

10.11591/ijeecs.v4.i3.pp542-547
Fatima Sayoti , Mohammed Essaid Riffi , Halima Labani
Job shop scheduling problem (JSSP) is considered to belong to the class of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. Finding a solution to this problem is equivalent to solving different problems of various fields such as industry and logistics. The objective of this work is to optimize the makespan in JSSP using Golden Ball algorithm. In this paper we propose an efficient adaptation of Golden Ball algorithm to the JSSP. Numerical results are presented for 36 instances of OR-Library. The computational results show that the proposed adaptation is competitive when compared with other existing methods in the literature; it can solve the most of the benchmark instances.
Volume: 4
Issue: 3
Page: 542-547
Publish at: 2016-12-01

Availability of Adequately Iodized Salt at Household Level and Associated Factors in Dire Dawa, Eastern Ethiopia

10.11591/ijphs.v5i4.4841
Anteneh Berhane Yaye , Negga Baraki , Birhanu Seyum Endale
In Ethiopia, Iodine Deficiency Disorder has been recognized as a serious public health problem for the past six decades. In 2011, an estimated 12 million school-age children were living with inadequate iodine, and 66 million people were at risk of iodine deficiency. One out of every 1000 people is a cretin mentally handicapped, due to a congenital thyroid deficiency, and about 50000 prenatal deaths are occurring annually due to iodine deficiency disorders. Only 5.7% of the households were using iodized salt in Dire Dawa city Administration, which is below the legal requirement.This study assessed availability of adequately iodized salt at household level and associated factors in Dire Dawa town, East Ethiopia. Community based cross-sectional study was carried out among households in Dire Dawa town during March 16-26, 2015. Multistage sampling technique was used. Data were collected using a pretested and structured questionnaire by a face-to-face interview technique. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were performed to check associations and control confounding. A total of 694 participants were participated. The availability of adequately iodized salt (≥15 parts per million) in the study area was 7.5% (95% CI; 5.6-9.5). Multivariate result showed that health information about iodized salt (AOR=8.96, 95% CI; 4.68-17.16) (p=0.03), good knowledge about iodized salt (AOR=9.23, 95% CI; 3.34-25.5) (p=0.01) and using packed salt (AOR=3.99, 95% CI; 1.48-10.73) (p=0.006) were associated with availability of adequately iodized salt at household level. Availability of adequately iodized salt at household level was very low.  Hence, households should be sensitized about importance of iodized salt and its proper handling at the household level.
Volume: 5
Issue: 4
Page: 392-399
Publish at: 2016-12-01

Ecological Social Development Model of Health Behavior of Conduct Achievement MDGs 5

10.11591/ijphs.v5i4.4843
Hilmi Yumni , Fendy Suhariadi , Oedojo Sudirham , Baiq Dewi Harnani R , Hasyim As’ari , Noer Saudah
Behavior of pregnant women who support the achievement of MDG 5 has not been fully achieved, one antenatal visit, shows there are still pregnant women who do not perform pregnancy tests regularly. The research aims to develop a model with Social Ecological Approach Model of Health Behavior in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by objective 5 with indicator of antenatal visits as well as aid delivery plan both place of birth and birth attendant. Observational study design, analytic, cross-sectional sample of 100 pregnant women who visit antenatal care at the health center Krembangan South Surabaya, simple random sampling, instruments using questionnaires, data analysis descriptive and inferential, using structural equation modeling (Structural Equation Modelling). The development of the social model of ecological models of health behavior to the behavior of the achievement of MDG 5 by the dominant factor is the construction of models intrapersonal factors include knowledge, attitude and self-efficacy, interpersonal factors include the support of family and community factors include health result support model testing goodness of fit note that the resulting model is an appropriate model used in the interpretation of the model because it has a model fit the criteria of empirical data generated by the study. The model can be used to strategize interventions in antenatal care is increasing knowledge, forming attitudes and self-efficacy through various activities such as prenatal classes or groups in pregnancy exercise as well as the involvement of family and health volunteers in assisting pregnant women to childbed.
Volume: 5
Issue: 4
Page: 406-414
Publish at: 2016-12-01

Arsenic Exposure to Fish and Shellfish Consumption among Community in Makassar, Indonesia

10.11591/ijphs.v5i4.4848
Musfirah Musfirah , Sri Damayanty
Fish and shellfish contaminated by Arsenic (As) heavy metals from people activity discharge into the coast. Coastal community was exposure risk by As due to consumption of marine products. This study aimed to determine of  human health risks level who consume fish and shellfish that contain As in Kaluku Bodoa and Untia coastal, Makassar. This research designed by observational and Environmental Health Risk Analysis (EHRA) approach. Human sample were 49 people and 8 environmental samples that selected based on certain criteria. Data collected through environmental assestment, interview and anthropometric data measurement. Data analyzed with EHRA methods. The results showed that the highest mean As levels found in Leiognatus equulus fish i.e. 1.589 mg/kg and Gafrarium tumidum shellfish i.e. 4.244 mg/kg of Untia coastal. The mean level of the carcinogenic risk for fish and shellfish consumption were unacceptable  because they  contain  As that demonstrated value of more than exponent 4 (ECR > E-4) and non-carcinogenic risk mean level was value of more than 1 (RQ > 1). Fish and shellfish consumption considered unsafe and will impact health problems for the community. Community should be restrict the frequency and amount of fish and shellfish consumption.
Volume: 5
Issue: 4
Page: 437-443
Publish at: 2016-12-01

Responses of Diabetes Mellitus Patients Who Used Complementary Medicine

10.11591/ijphs.v5i4.4831
Anita Joeliantina , Mangestuti Agil , M. Bagus Qomaruddin , Arijanto Jonosewojo , Kusnanto Kusnanto
Diabetes Mellitus as a chronic disease tend to seek appropriate medical treatment to heal the condition. Health-seek searched can be either medical treatment or Complementary and Alternative Medicine. This study explored deeply on the response of diabetes mellituspatients who visited to Indonesian Traditional Medicine Polyclinic on Regional Public Hospital dr. Soetomo Surabaya in using complementary medicine. This study used qualitative study with phenomenological method approach. The focus of this study was diabetes mellitus patients who use complementary medicine. Nine participants were selected based on purposive sampling method with certain criteria. Data collection used was in-depth interview and field note. Data analysis used thematic content analysis. Determining five themes that correspond with the purpose of study and a new theme. Some themes were psychological response after being diagnosed diabetes mellitus, opinion on the diabetes mellitus disease, complementary medicine usage patterns, reasons, the response after the use of complementary medicine, and family support. As a chronic disease, patients need proper treatment and conduct it continuously. Healer shopping was often taken by diabetes mellituspatients. It was required cooperation between patients and health professionals to monitor the behavior in order to achieve the effectiveness of medical treatment.
Volume: 5
Issue: 4
Page: 367-374
Publish at: 2016-12-01

The Influence of Lavender Aroma Therapy on Decreasing Blood Pressure in Hypertension Patients

10.11591/ijphs.v5i4.4853
Agustina Boru Gultom , Surita Ginting , Elni Lorensi Silalahi
The objective of this research was to determine the influence of lavender aromatherapy on decreasing blood pressure in hypertension patients. The research employed quantitative method with quasi experiment design. The samples were 32 patients either in the treatment group or in the non-treatment group. They were selected by consecutive sampling technique. The result of the research showed that the decrease in systolic and diastolic blood pressure of the treatment group was 9.7299 mmHg and 4.3237 mmHg while without treatment was 7.0461 mmHg and 3.51152 mmHg. Paired t-test resulted the probability value of systolic blood pressure was α (0.000) <0.05, the probability of diastolic blood pressure was α (0.000) <0.05. It could be concluded that there was the influence of lavender aromatherapy on the decrease in systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Inhalation with lavender aromatherapy method can become one of the considerations in nursing intervention to decrease blood pressure in hypertension patients. It can be an alternative of therapy complement besides medication.
Volume: 5
Issue: 4
Page: 470-478
Publish at: 2016-12-01

A New Memory MapReduce Framework for Higher Access to Resources

10.11591/ijeecs.v4.i3.pp629-636
ZuKuan WEI , Bo HONG , JaeHong KIM
The demand for highly parallel data processing platform was growing due to an explosion in the number of massive-scale data applications both in academia and industry. MapReduce was one of the most meaningful solutions to deal with big data distributed computing, This paper was based on the work of Hadoop MapReduce. In the face of massive data computing and calculation process, MapReduce generated a lot of dynamic data, but these data were discarded after the task completed. Meanwhile, a large number of dynamic data were written to HDFS during task execution, caused much unnecessary IO cost. In this paper, we analyzed existing distributed caching mechanism and proposed a new Memory MapReduce framework that has a real-time response to read or write request from task nodes, maintain related information about cache data. After performance testing, we could clearly find MapReduce with cache significantly improved in IO performance.
Volume: 4
Issue: 3
Page: 629-636
Publish at: 2016-12-01

Dealing with the Daily Emergency Care: A Case among the Waste Pickers in Surabaya

10.11591/ijphs.v5i4.4844
Loetfia Dwi Rahariyani , Nikmatul Fadilah , Yohanes Kambaru Windi , Nursalam Nursalam
Waste pickers are those who collect, sort and sell recyclable waste for a living. Waste pickers are vulnerable to various health problems, particularly high risk of occupational health. This study intended to overview the capability of the waste picker to manage the emergency care due to their unsafe working condition. It is a descriptive study involving 48 waste pickers. The study revealed the poor knowledge and practices of the waste pickers in handling their emergency care. Therefore, it exacerbates their health and become riskier to diseases and illness. Improving the knowledge of the waste pickers regarding the emergency care and the provision of health programs accommodating the waste pickers is necessary.
Volume: 5
Issue: 4
Page: 415-421
Publish at: 2016-12-01

Identification of Brain disorders by Sub-band Decomposition of EEG signals and Measurement of Signal to Noise Ratio

10.11591/ijeecs.v4.i3.pp568-579
Hadaate Ullah , Shahin Mahmud , Rubana Hoque Chowdhury
In the case of medical science, one of the most restless researches is the identification of abnormalities in brain. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is the main tool for determining the electrical activity of brain and it contains rich information associated to the varieties physiological states of brain. The purpose of this task is to identify the EEG signal as order or disorder. It is proposed to enrich an automated system for the identification of brain disorders. An EEG signal of a patient has been taken as a sample. The simulation has been done by MATLAB. The file which consists of the signal has been called in and plotted the signals in MATLAB. The proposed system covers pre-processing, feature extraction, feature selection and classification. By the pre-processing the noises are ejected. In this case the signal has been filtered using band pass filter. The Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) has been used to decompose the EEG signal into Sub-band signal. The feature extraction methods have been used to extract the EEG signal into frequency domain and the time domain features. The SNR (Signal to Noise ratio) is obtained in this work is 1.1281dB.
Volume: 4
Issue: 3
Page: 568-579
Publish at: 2016-12-01

Association of Physical Activity with Co-morbid Conditions in Geriatric Population

10.11591/ijphs.v5i4.4849
Aliya Hisam , Mahmood Ur Rahman , Rimsha Khan , Sundus Ilyas , Anosha Jabbar , Syed Awais Kazmi , Umer Mushtaq
To find out association of physical activity with co-morbid conditions in geriatric population, a cross-sectional study was conducted in different cties of Pakistan in 2015. A total of 114 participants were inducted by non-probability convenience sampling technique. Data was collected after informed verbal consent by a validated questionnaire that is Rapid Assessment of Physical Activity (RAPA). Participants were categorized into two groups i.e. physically active and physically inactive.  Data was entered and analyzed in SPSS version 20. There were 66 (57.9%) males and 48 (42.1%) females with mean age of 57.04±7.348 years. Among hypertensive individuals (n=43, 37.7%) there were 39 (90.7%) physically inactive, among individuals having angina (n=17, 14.9%) there were 15 (88.2%) physically inactive. Out of 37 (32.5%) diabetics, 35 (94.6%) were physically inactive. Among individuals suffering from arthritis (n=40, 35.1%), there were 38 (95%) physically inactive. A significant association was found between physical activity and diabetes and arthritis with p-value of 0.048 and 0.029 respectively. Physical activity is significantly associated with diabetes and arthritis in geriatric population. Adequate physical activity should be performed to reduce the risk of co-morbid conditions and improve the quality of life in geriatric population.
Volume: 5
Issue: 4
Page: 444-449
Publish at: 2016-12-01

Prevalence and Associated Factors of Hypertension among Civil Servants Working in Arba Minch Town, South Ethiopia

10.11591/ijphs.v5i4.4838
Aschenaki Kalssa , Gistane Ayele , Alemu Tamiso , Tadele Girum
Despite Hypertension is a global public health challenge and a leading modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease and death attention was not given in developing countries. Therefore measuring the prevalence and identifying predictors of Hypertension is very important. Institution based cross sectional study design was employed from March–April, 2016 by taking 319 randomly selected civil servants working in in Arba Minch town. Data was collected using structured questionnaire and standardized instruments for physical examination by 5 trained nurses. SPSS version 20 was used for data analysis. Bi-variable and Multivariate logistic regression was employed for analysis of risk factors. The mean SBP and DBP of study participants were 120.87 + 14.15 mmHg and 80.28 + 8.8 mmHg, respectively. The prevalence of hypertension was found to be 27.8% (95% CI = 22.9-32.7%). Civil servants of age 50 years and above [AOR = 13.3], age 40-49 years [AOR = 5], age 30-39 years [AOR = 3.5], abdominal obesity [AOR=12.2], general obesity [AOR = 4.2], stress status [AOR = 12.3], current alcohol drink [AOR = 3.3], ex-drinker [AOR = 8.9] and family history of hypertension [AOR = 5.6] were found to be significantly associated with hypertension. The prevalence indicates that it is hidden epidemic in this population; therefore for screening and risk reduction program are needed.
Volume: 5
Issue: 4
Page: 375-383
Publish at: 2016-12-01

Assessing State of the Art on Artificial Neural Network Paradigms for Level of Eutrophication Estimation of Water Bodies

10.11591/ijai.v5.i4.pp135-142
Tushar Anthwal , M K Pandey
With growing power of computer and blend of intelligent soft wares, the interpretation and analytical capabilities of the system had shown an excellent growth, providing intelligence solutions to almost every computing problem. In this direction here we are trying to identify how different geocomputation techniques had been implemented for estimation of parameters on water bodies so as to identify the level of contamination leading to the different level of eutrophication. The main mission of this paper is to identify state-of-art in artificial neural network paradigms that are prevailing and effective in modeling and combining spatial data for anticipation. Among this, our interest is to identify different analysis techniques and their parameters that are mainly used for quality inspection of lakes and estimation of nutrient pollutant content in it, and different neural network models that offered the forecasting of level of eutrophication in the water bodies. Different techniques are analyzed over the main steps;-assimilation of spatial data, statistical interpretation technique, observed parameters used for eutrophication estimation and accuracy of resultant data.
Volume: 5
Issue: 4
Page: 135-142
Publish at: 2016-12-01

Pain and Suffering: The Reality of Being Positive with HIV/AIDS

10.11591/ijphs.v5i4.4854
Retno Lestari , Wenny Nugrahati Carsita
HIV/AIDS remains a global health problem and affects the overall quality of life. People living with HIV/AIDS are at risk for developing mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety. This condition can fuel additional problems, such as non-compliance in taking HIV medications. This study aimed to explore the meaning in life while living with HIV/AIDS among people in West Java.This study used an interpretive phenomenological approach. Data were collected by in-depth interviews among 7 participants who experienced HIV-positive. The results were analyzed by Van Manen method. Four themes were identified in this study: (1) experiencing mental suffering, (2) be free from mental suffering, (3) trust the HIV/AIDS disease is not contagious and there is a hope to liveand (4) performing activities to improve the quality of life. Participantsfeels that living with HIV/AIDS is not easy. They suffered from fear and anxiety, on the other hand it emerged as a hope and decision to seek support, treatment, and performing activities to improve the quality of life.
Volume: 5
Issue: 4
Page: 479-483
Publish at: 2016-12-01

Software Reliability Using SPRT: Burr Type III Process Model

10.11591/ijece.v6i6.pp3060-3067
CH. Smitha , R. Satya Prasad , R. Kiran Kumar
Increased dependence on software systems elicited the assessment of their reliability, a crucial task in software development. Effective tools and mechanisms are required to facilitate the assessment of software reliability. Classical approaches like hypothesis testing are significantly time consuming as the conclusion can only be drawn after collecting huge amounts of data. Statistical method such as Sequential Analysis can be applied to arrive at a decision quickly. This paper implemented Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT) for Burr Type III model based on time domain data. For this, parameters were estimated using Maximum Likelihood Estimation to apply SPRT on five real time software failure datasets borrowed from different software projects. The results exemplify that the adopted model has given a rejection decision for the used datasets.
Volume: 6
Issue: 6
Page: 3060-3067
Publish at: 2016-12-01
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