Quality of Life and Illness Acceptance among End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Patients on Hemodialysis: The Moderating Effect of Death Anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic.

The purpose of the study was to examine the quality of life and illness acceptance among ESRD patients with the moderating effects of death anxiety. The cross-sectional design was incorporated. The sample was comprised of 240 participants. Individuals with ESRD on hemodialysis were approached above 20 years of age. A self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection. The results revealed that COVID-19 has a significant impact on the quality of life of patients and their illness acceptance. Covid-19 affected the general health of patients, their psychological health, as well as their social relationships. The results also confirmed that death anxiety negatively moderates the relationship between quality of life and illness acceptance among ESRD patients. This study will shed light on the need to provide appropriate psychosocial care as well as supportive therapies to people with end-stage renal disease who are experiencing mental distress during and after the COVID-19 outbreak.

Price explosiveness in cryptocurrencies and Elon Musk's tweets

We detect episodes of price explosivity and collapse in Bitcoin and its contender Dogecoin using four-hourly data. The results show multiple bubble episodes in both cryptocurrencies, with a more frequent occurrence in Bitcoin. Collapse episodes are only observed in Bitcoin. We relate price explosivity to Elon Musk's tweets. His cryptocurrency-related general tweets have contributed to the price explosivity of Bitcoin, whereas his Dogecoin-specific tweets have contributed to price explosivity in Dogecoin. Our findings highlight the influential role of key persons through social media on the formation of bubbles, which matters to the decision-making of cryptotraders and market efficiency.

Edukasi dan pelatihan terbimbing bagi guru mengenai pembelajaran secara daring sebagai upaya pencegahan COVID-19

Integrated community service activities KKN-Tematik are a forum for educating and training teachers and students using online learning as an effort to prevent COVID-19 with the purpose that teachers can carry out learning activities by online learning with utilizing several applications such as WhatsApp Google Classroom Google meet and zoom. The activities on the work program KKN-Tematik begins with socialization to teachers in the location of each student followed by educating and guided training on online learning methods and the use of several applications that can be used as well as conducting trials involving several students. This activity received positive responses from the teacher with the seriousness and activeness of the teacher to find out the use of applications in online learning which so far has only limited to the use of WhatsApp through questionnaires. In addition, the ability and skills of teachers regarding the use of several applications have increased from the inability to use applications in online learning to be able to use these applications with the readiness of teachers to carry out online learning in the future. However, some of the barriers experienced by the teacher in the implementation of online learning are not yet maximal inability so they still need further independent guidance and insufficient advice and infrastructure such as internet networks data packets and not all students have cellphones

Mental health crisis in pregnant women during current COVID-19 pandemic

Even though for majority of women pregnancy period is a blessed period of their life but a few expecting women encountered a range of negative emotions in those ninth months which lead to depression and anxiety. Maternal mental health issues are interlinked with both short- and long-term health risks for the affected female parent and as well as for the child. The entire health and functional performance of the mother along with the children's mental, physiological and cognitive development is affected by the disrupting mental health situation of the mother. The risks of morbidities which are caused by the psychological problems such as intense stress, natural disasters and accidents and conflict situation could be increased among the perinatal mothers. As a result, it is possible that obstetric women are more exposed to mental health related issues during the pandemic of COVID-19. It is concluded that development of appropriate strategies is important to reduce stress by diagnosing and managing mental health diseases in new mothers without delay at the time of pandemic. Screening techniques based on internet, online counseling and web-related psychological assistance and therapeutic interventions might produce a significant role in this regard. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)