Publications by authors named "Muthmainnah Muthmainnah"

Introduction: Adherence to taking iron tablets is a challenge in the Fe supplementation program. Self-identity is an essential factor to consider while enhancing teenage adherence to taking Fe tablets. Health Belief Model showed that likelihood of action is affected by health belief variables and eventually affected the actual behavior which is the adherence.

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With increasing technology advancement, including the rising use of smartphones, some individuals rely heavily on smartphones in their daily lives and become increasingly anxious if they do not have access to their smartphones (i.e., nomophobia [no mobile phobia]).

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Introduction: With Indonesia ranking top in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations for the number of smokers aged 13-15 years, this study aims to analyze the factors associated with smoking prevention behavior among students of senior high school.

Methods: This cross-sectional pilot study, conducted in 2022 with 90 samples of grade 10-11 students at SMA Negeri 1 Taman Sidoarjo East Java Indonesia, examined variables such as perceived vulnerability (the belief about the risk of experiencing a health issue), severity (the belief about the seriousness of the health issue), benefits (the belief in the benefit of taking preventive actions), barriers (the perceived obstacles to performing preventive behaviors), self-efficacy (the confidence in one's ability to perform preventive behaviors successfully), and cues to action (factors that trigger the decision to engage) in relation to health behaviors. Data were analyzed using the chi-squared test.

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Introduction: The third objective of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 'ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages', is manifest in Indonesia's commitment to health. One of the SDG3 targets is to reduce under-five mortality and infant mortality. In rural areas of Indonesia, there is a lack of access to medical facilities (healthcare services, anthropometry tools) and health workers, so low birth weight (LBW, <2500 g) in rural areas remains high.

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Objectives: We aimed to explore and understand the extent and type of evidence on fertility reduction and its association with family planning (FP) in Southeast Asia.

Design: Scoping review, following the methodological principles developed by Arksey and O'Malley and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines for reporting.

Data Source: We searched PubMed/MEDLINE, ProQuest, EBSCO, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar and reference lists of relevant articles between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2022.

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Background: Low birth weight (LBW) is a major public health problem in Indonesia, and is a leading cause of neonatal mortality. Adequate antenatal care (ANC) utilization would help to prevent the incidence of LBW babies. This study aims to examine the association between ANC utilization and LBW children among women with high-risk birth criteria.

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Introduction: Adolescent birth has many negative impacts on the development of a country. Preparing for pregnancy needs to be done from adolescence so that adolescents and women are healthy during pregnancy and give birth to healthy babies. In Indonesia, the adolescent birth rate is still high.

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Background: Adolescents are a vulnerable group who have great curiosity and need access to various adolescent health information. Therefore, the government has implemented a strategy through the implementation of Youth Care Health Services (YCHS). However, some of the stakeholders and youth have limited access to YCHS especially the ones delivered in schools setting.

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Background: Student groups are prone to drug abuse. The prevalence of drugs in the past year among high school students in Surabaya, Indonesia occupies the highest provincial capital (9.4%).

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Issue Addressed: Adolescence is a transition period between childhood and adulthood during which an individual is more likely to engage in drug use. Peer education is one strategy suggested to discourage adolescents from engaging in negative lifestyle behaviours including drug use. This qualitative research was conducted to understand the perspectives of student peer educators to provide counselling to their peers around drug use.

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