Science and Technology

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The next article was an interventional study examining the effects of self-management counseling on physical health status in 60 patients with pulmonary TB (Jauhar, Nursasi, & Wiarsih, 2018). The counseling was given for four sessions in two weeks for about 60-90 minutes each session in the intervention group. The result showed that the physical health status in the intervention group increased, but there was no influence of self-management counseling on the improvement of physical health status. These findings need more rigorous studies to investigate the effect of self-management counseling delivered at early treatment on the improvement of physical health status. The last article was conducted by Kusuma, Ropyanto, Widyaningsih and Sujianto (2018). This study was a correlational study aiming to analyze the relating factors of insomnia in hemodialysis patients. The study involved 102 patients in two dialysis units in Semarang, Indonesia. The result revealed that insomnia occurred in 63 respondents (61.8%). Further analysis indicated that insomnia was related to anxiety and age, whereas other factors such as gender, education level, occupation status, marital status, hemoglobin level, smoking and coffee consumption habit, and dialysis factor (period of dialysis) were not correlated. This study recommends that anxiety screening should be performed on hemodialysis patients. Finally, the NJMN would like to thank the authors, reviewers, and editors for their contribution and collaboration in publishing this current issue. Also, the editors would like to appreciate and call for academic papers from the nurse-practitioners, academicians, professionals, graduates and undergraduate students, fellows, and associates pursuing research throughout the world to contribute to this international journal.