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{"title":"A REVIEW OF STUDIES RELATED TO SICK BUILDING SYNDROME AMONG OFFICE PERSONNEL","authors":"Zaza Hulwanee, Titi Rahmawati","doi":"10.32827/ijphcs.6.2.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32827/ijphcs.6.2.21","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The term “sick building syndrome” (SBS) had started to gain popularity in the 1980s. So far, studies on this subject have been conducted among office personnel and then extended to include healthcare workers working in hospitals, residents, and schoolchildren. The aim of this review is to identify the scope of research of the studies conducted on SBS in the last 15 years, particularly among office personnel, to determine the knowledge gap in the nature of illness, risk factors, individual and economic consequences, preventive strategies, and costeffectiveness of the available intervention strategies. Materials and Methods: PubMed and Medline database were used for the purpose of searching for articles published from January 2003 to May 2018. The search was based on the inclusion criteria and the keywords “sick building syndrome” and “office personnel”. Twentythree articles were assessed and reviewed in the final stage. Results: Fourteen cross-sectional studies, three longitudinal studies, one cohort study, one case-control study, one case report, one systematic review, and epidemiological modelling, and one cost-benefit study were found. These studies were conducted in the US, Japan, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Norway, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Egypt. Twenty-one studies focus on epidemiology, mainly the prevalence on SBS symptoms, risk factors, and predictors. One study looked into the cost and benefit of environmental interventions to reduce SBS and the other study was on analytical chemistry. Conclusion: Study areas related to long-term consequences of SBS, behavioural factors contributing to SBS, economic consequences due to SBS, and cost-effectiveness of environmental intervention strategies to minimise SBS have been covered in those studies but scarcity of data remains an issue. Meanwhile, studies in the area of knowledge and attitudes towards SBS, as well as individual preventive measures for SBS are lacking. Further research focusing on these particular domains is called for.","PeriodicalId":14315,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Public Health and Clinical Sciences","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73989415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT","authors":"A. A.S, O. Mardiana, A. Rosliza","doi":"10.32827/ijphcs.6.2.77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32827/ijphcs.6.2.77","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Communication breakdown is one of the major problems that occur during disaster event, despite its importance in disaster management. In recent years, the social media, which has gained its popularity and expanded its function, provides a promising solution in disaster management over traditional communication. This paper aims to determine the role of social media in disaster management cycle and to create a framework for the application. Materials and Methods: A comprehensive literature search was conducted systematically using PubMed, Google Scholar, Science-direct and Scopus with keywords of role of social media OR social media AND disaster event OR natural disaster. The literature searched was limited to documented natural disaster for the past ten years, open source articles, original article and reported in English language. Primary screening of title and abstract involved 128 articles, from there, 90 articles were excluded. Secondary eligibility screening of the remaining 38 articles, resulted in 14 articles which were then synthesized and reviewed in this manuscript. Result: A framework was produced pertaining to role of social media according to disaster management cycle. In mitigation phase the role of social media includes incorporation of risk reduction and preventative activities. Further into preparedness phase,  social media  provides disaster warnings, implement crisis communication activities and signal/detect disaster. Further to response phase, the role includes deliver and analyse news coverage of disaster, provide and receive disaster respond information, send and receive request for assistance and reconnect family members. Finally, in the recovery phase, social media  raises donation and awareness, encourage volunteerism and provide/receive information on recovery and rebuilding process. This review highlighted the dynamic and complexity of social media functions in providing better communication approach during disaster management. Conclusion: Social media certainly has the  capacity to become an alternative mode of communication to complement traditional communication during disaster. However, drawbacks from using social media and its implications in disaster management need to be considered as well. Keywords:  social media; social network, disaster, communication","PeriodicalId":14315,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Public Health and Clinical Sciences","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77879055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COMPARISON OF INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO (INR) BETWEEN POINT OF CARE DEVICE COAGUCHEK® XS VERSUS STANDARD LABORATORY INSTRUMENT AMONG PATIENTS RECEIVING WARFARIN THERAPY IN A NORTHEAST STATE OF PENINSULAR MALAYSIA","authors":"Muhammad Irfan Abdul Aziz, Hafizuddin Awang","doi":"10.32827/ijphcs.6.2.215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32827/ijphcs.6.2.215","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Warfarin is widely used and cost-effective for various indications. However, the narrow therapeutic index of warfarin requires frequent International Normalized Ratio (INR) monitoring. The purpose of this study was to compare the mean differences, to examine the correlation and agreement between the two methods of venipuncture using laboratory assay and by finger prick using Point of Care (POC) device (CoaguChek® XS). Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was done in warfarin Medication Therapeutic Adherence Clinic (MTAC), Kuala Krai Hospital. Convenient sampling was used to recruit patients from August until December 2016. The INR results from CoaguChek® XS were compared with the results from standard laboratory assay. Descriptive statistics, paired t-test, Pearson's correlation and Bland-Altman plot were used for data analysis. Result: A total of 52 patients with 84 paired samples were collected in this study. The mean INR values obtained from CoaguChek® XS was significantly different from standard laboratory method (p<0.001). However, there was a strong positive correlation between these two methods (r=0.941, p<0.001). Besides, Bland-Altman plot demonstrated a good agreement between both methods especially when INR values less than 3.5. Conclusion: Despite the mean differences of INR values between these two methods was statistically significant, but it was clinically not significant (mean difference = 0.32). There was a strong correlation and good agreement between INR values obtained from these two methods. These findings may help clinicians in improving the quality of INR monitoring for patients on warfarin therapy. Keywords: Point of Care device, standard laboratory method, INR, warfarin.","PeriodicalId":14315,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Public Health and Clinical Sciences","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83676914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ERGONOMICS APPROACH TO ASSESS THE RISK ASSOCIATED WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF DOMESTIC TASKS–PART “B”","authors":"","doi":"10.32827/ijphcs.6.2.132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32827/ijphcs.6.2.132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14315,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Public Health and Clinical Sciences","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87963258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH AND THEORETICAL CONCEPT FOR MEASURING HOSPITAL TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY","authors":"Aref G. Aldalbahi., M. H. Juni, Rosliza A.M, Lim Poh Ying, Faisal Ibrahim","doi":"10.32827/ijphcs.6.1.237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32827/ijphcs.6.1.237","url":null,"abstract":"Background: In the health care systems, efficiency measurement is considered as a key step in performing individual performance audits of production units such as, health centres and hospitals. It entails a rational framework through which resources are distributed and shared among health care facilities. Thus, there are two common approaches to measure hospital efficiency namely: non-parametric (DEA) and parametric (SFA). The article is aimed to review the articles to analyze the characteristics of these approaches and to identify the similarities, differences, strengths, and limitations related to them. Materials and Methods: The literature, which related to measuring relative efficiency of hospitals were obtained from online database involving ScienceDirect, Pubmed. The keywords used for the search terms involving hospital efficiency, healthcare efficiency, parametric approach, non-parametric approach, DEA and SFA. The review only for articles published in English language. Result: The required information about methodological approaches were obtained and summarized into the construct form. The discussion was based on approach type in term of non-parametric and parametric. Conclusion: In a nutshell, both of DEA and SFA can be applicable in healthcare setting to measure hospitals efficiency. The selection of the convenient approach is subjected to the aim of the study.","PeriodicalId":14315,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Public Health and Clinical Sciences","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85406851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"SIGHT THREATENING OR LIFE THREATENING: A CASE REPORT OF OCULAR MANIFESTATION IN ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKAEMIA","authors":"Boon-Hooi Tan, Jeyarine Royan, Khairy-Shamel Sonny-Teo","doi":"10.32827/ijphcs.6.1.250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32827/ijphcs.6.1.250","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the commonest childhood malignancy and ocular manifestations are uncommon in ALL. Patients may present with non-specific systemic symptoms which are overlooked and life threatening symptoms of leukostasis often present late. Here, we present a rare case of ALL where ocular symptoms preceded constitutional symptoms. Materials and Methods: A case report. Result: A 11-year-old girl presented with a syncopal attack during the fasting month to a primary health center. She was investigated at a tertiary center and diagnosed to have ALL. Further history revealed she had sudden painless severe reduced vision in the right for one month prior to this. Ocular assessment noted her right visual acuity was 5/60 and left visual acuity was 6/6. Her right fundus had a large subhyaloid haemorrhage over the macula and multiple large white-centered haemorrhages (Roth’s spot); while the left fundus showed multiple large Roth’s spots and some intraretinal haemorrhages. Chemotherapy was instituted after immunophenotyping was reported as precursor B-cell ALL. Ocular condition was managed conservatively. There was total resolution of the subhyaloid haemorrhage and retinal haemorrhages in both eyes and she regained full vision bilaterally while on induction therapy over 5 months. Conclusion: Life threatening conditions such as ALL should be considered in children with sudden, painless, reduced vision and urgent ophthalmology assessment is important for early detection. Blurry vision could be the earliest symptom in ALL. Awareness on eye health must be emphasized in school by the educators for early detection of both sight and life threatening condition among children.","PeriodicalId":14315,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Public Health and Clinical Sciences","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80338934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EFFECTIVENESS OF SAFE PATIENT HANDLING INTERVENTION ON MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDER AMONG GOVERNMENT NURSES IN ELDERLY CARE HOMES WEST COAST MALAYSIA: STUDY PROTOCOL","authors":"E. Eriyani, A. Azuhairi, Salmiah, A. Rosliza, Rafee M.B","doi":"10.32827/ijphcs.6.1.222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32827/ijphcs.6.1.222","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Health care worker are susceptible to develop musculoskeletal disorder (MSD). Nurses in nursing home setting exposed with physical and psychological stressors and they are prone to develop MSD due to these conditions (Simon et al., 2008). Manual handling while handling elderly patient involved awkward posture which lead to MSD among nurses. Therefore safe patient handling intervention is important in reducing prevalence of MSD among nurses. Materials and Methods: The cluster pre-test and post-test with control group quasi experimental study will be done involving 8 government elderly care homes in West Coast Malaysia. Total 256 nurses and assistant nurses will be involved in this study. Four home care will be in the intervention group. While another 4 home care will be in the control group. Safe patient handling intervention program will be conducted. During health education, health belief model theory will be used to increase the knowledge and subsequently change the practice to safe patient handling. Result: Prior to intervention program, module intervention and health education material will be developed. The health education and training will be given according to module provided. Outcome measurements are musculoskeletal disorder, knowledge and practice of safe patient handling. These outcomes will be measured through selfadministered questionnaires. Data will be analysed using SPSS version 22. To measure the association, Chi-square test, Mann Whitney U test, independent t test, dependent t test and Wilcoxon signed rank test will be used and for multivariate analysis, the Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE) will be used. Conclusion: Health education on safe patient handling is important in order to reduce the MSD among nurses in elderly care homes.","PeriodicalId":14315,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Public Health and Clinical Sciences","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81579432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ASSOCIATED FACTORS WITH HOSPITAL DIET COMPLIANCE IN TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS","authors":"N. Wahyudi, M. A. Isfandiari","doi":"10.32827/ijphcs.6.1.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32827/ijphcs.6.1.86","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) was a condition of insufficient insulin because the pancreas was damaged or insulin could not be used effectively. DM was related to diet. Food for DM patients was important to monitor so the blood sugar would be controlled. Preliminary studies showed that 60% of patients had low levels of dietary compliance. This study aimed to look at the relationship of family support with hospital diet compliance in type 2 DM patients and see the relation between the knowledge levels with hospital diet compliance in type 2 DM patients in Surabaya Haji Hospital.","PeriodicalId":14315,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Public Health and Clinical Sciences","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82476985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH CARE SEEKING BEHAVIOUR AND UNMET NEED AMONG PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES IN NIGERIA","authors":"H. Zandam, M. H. Juni, K. Hayati, B. Anisah, A. M. Hamza","doi":"10.32827/ijphcs.6.1.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32827/ijphcs.6.1.61","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Generally people with disabilities have high healthcare need that is likely as a result of primary condition causing the disability, comorbidity or their vulnerability to diseases. Despite these health challenges and need for healthcare those living in poor countries have poor healthcare seeking behaviour and experience unmet healthcare needs. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional population based survey was used to collect data from 285 respondent recruited using multi-stage sampling methods Result: Result from multiple regression analysis shows several variables independently to be significantly with healthcare seeking behaviour such as gender, age, location, SES, health status, and perceived cost of healthcare. Report of unmet needs for healthcare is associated with gender, age, location, SES, income, health status, distance, and perceived service quality. Conclusion: If the healthcare needs of people with disability have to be met, innovative strategies will need to be devised to reach out to people with disabilities, especially women, elderly and the poor with disabilities.","PeriodicalId":14315,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Public Health and Clinical Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79244100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EVALUATION OF DENGUE PREVENTION AND CONTROL PROGRAMS IN BANYUMAS HEALTH OFFICE, CENTRAL JAVA, INDONESIA","authors":"Devi Octaviana, S. Wijayanti, Sri Nurlaela, Kuswanto","doi":"10.32827/ijphcs.6.1.199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32827/ijphcs.6.1.199","url":null,"abstract":"Materials and Methods: This is qualitative study, located in Banyumas Regency, Central Java Indonesia. 38 of informants, consist of Banyumas Regency health officer, staff of primary health care, voluntary cadre and community were interviewed. To increase validity of this study, triangulation of source and method was carried out. Program evaluation consist of input (human resources, fund, method, regulation, and materials), process (plan, organization, implementation and evaluation), output (completeness of report).","PeriodicalId":14315,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Public Health and Clinical Sciences","volume":"257 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76781081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}