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The goal of this study is to examine the existing literature on measuring the digital transformation of e-payment users' MSMEs in order to highlight the extent of digital payment transformation so that it may be applied in e-commerce using the methods employed previously. This research employs a staged systematic literature review. 1) Gathering Background and Purpose, 2) Formulating Research Questions, and 3) Locating Literature 4) Criteria for Selection 5) The Useful Screen 6) Procedures and Checklists for Quality 6) Data Extraction and Synthesis Strategies This research highlights research gaps and makes recommendations for future studies. The use of digital transformation is one of the key techniques to boost the competitiveness of SMEs, according to the conclusions of this study. MSMEs might benefit from a more straightforward and uncomplicated digital transition. Electronic payments, often known as e-payments, are critical to SMEs' digital transformation, particularly during the covid 19 pandemic. SMEs involved in e-commerce are beginning to adopt e-payments as a payment method. E-payments are used for a reason: to provide transaction security, convenience, and comfort. E-payments are a type of digital transformation that is supposed to aid SMEs in their development and competitiveness. © 2023 Author(s).
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Objective: COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis (TB) cases, and TB-COVID-19 integrated screening was introduced as a strategy to overcome these problems. This study determined the acceptability of the TB-COVID-19 integrated screening by healthcare workers (HCWs) and its impact on achievement of the TB program. Methods: This was a mixed-method study with an embedded design. Data on hospital TB program coverage from the national TB information system for all Muhammadiyah and Aisyiyah Hospitals (MAHs) in Central Java were compared before and after the implementation of TB-COVID-19 integrated screening. The informants consisted of HCWs from 21 MAHs in Central Java. Focus group discussions (FGDs) were carried out with 7 hospital TB, 19 emergency room, 10 outpatient, 6 inpatient, and 4 managerial staff. In-depth interview (IDIs) were also performed with the Technical Officer TB Recovery Head of the Muhammadiyah Center. All IDIs and FGDs were recorded, transcribed verbatim, and subjected to thematic analysis guided by the theoretical framework of acceptability (TFA). Result: Implementation of the TB-COVID-19 integrated screening program led to an increase in the number of new TB case diagnoses at the Central Java Hospitals. Moreover, the program was acceptable based on seven indicators from TFA. Despite the obstacles faced by HCWs during the implementation process, the program still managed to meet the standards. Conclusion: Acceptance by HCWs is a critical factor in the successful implementation of programs, including the TB-COVID-19 integrated screening. Furthermore, a multifaceted and cross-sectoral approach is required to address the constraints associated with the process.
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The COVID-19 vaccination can help to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Low vaccine acceptance among adolescents could exacerbate the risk of COVID-19. The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and risk factors among adolescents. This study used cross-sectional with adolescents who are domiciled in Medan City. The sample was gathered through an online survey, and the data was analysed using bivariate and multivariate statistics (Multiple Logistic Regression). According to the findings, 96.2% of respondents are aware of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, and 47.9% are willing to be vaccinated. Social media was predominantly a source of information on COVID-19 vaccination among respondents. The results revealed that economic status, social media information, and knowing the vaccination program had an influence on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. Health education and promotion amongst the targeted group is needed to increase future COVID-19 vaccine coverage. © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Covid-19 as a pandemic since March 11, 2020. The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a lot of discussion around the world. Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) can be used to extract patterns or information from a set of texts. This study uses a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to see what the most dominant topics are discussed during the Covid-19 pandemic and find out research gaps for further research about Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). The articles used are limited to the article publication period, February 2020 to July 2021. The results of the review show that case handling (lockdown, international airports closure), conspiracy issues and fake news, number of daily case reports, the importance of covid prevention, Covid-19 vaccination policy, economic downturn, transportation systems, learning systems, and new policies for each country were the most discussed topics from March 2020 to January 2021. © 2023 Author(s).
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Effective strategies could be generated by understand the problem through system thinking. Besides curing Covid-19, the government needs to formulate good risk communication to their society thus the society could accept the right message and act the right response. Before formulating the good risk communication, it is important to understand the society and their perception toward the pandemic. The understanding of perception is necessary to the balance response between risk and response. The exploration through Causal Loop Diagram (CLD) can show the structure of given system and help to capture a mental model. This study aims to develop CLD model of risk perception toward government attempts in handling Covid-19, so the government can formulate the strategies by proposing suggestion based in risk perception of society. © 2022 IEEE.
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Background: This study aims to describe risk factors for vertical transmission of Covid-19 and report the clinical exterior Materials and Methods: The sampling technique is a total and univariate data processing to display the percentage. Results: 72 neonates of mothers who confirmed covid 19, not a single baby was confirmed after 24 hours of labor. The results showed that most maternity mothers with Sectio cesarean had as many as 52 respondents (72.2%). Based on the study results, nine mothers (12.5%) gave birth in fewer months (preterm). In confirmed maternity mothers covid 19, the majority of mothers were confirmed by 37 (51.4%) respondents affected by covid 19 and the minority of primipara mothers by 5 (6.9%) respondents. Conclusion: No baby has been confirmed positive after birth to a mother who has been confirmed positive for covid 19.
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was declared a global pandemic in March 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO). By February 2022, the disease had infected more than 500 million people globally. COVID-19 frequently manifests as pneumonia and mortality is mainly caused by acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Previous studies have reported that pregnant women are at a higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and complications can happen due to alterations in the immune response, respiratory physiology, hypercoagulable state, and placental pathology. Clinicians face the challenge of selecting the proper treatment for pregnant patients with different physiological characteristics compared with the non-pregnant population. Furthermore, drug safety for both the patient and the fetus should also be considered. Efforts to prevent COVID-19, including prioritizing vaccination for pregnant women, are essential to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission in the pregnant population. This review aims to summarize the current literature regarding the effect of COVID-19 in pregnant women, its clinical manifestations, treatment, complications, and prevention.
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Purpose: The research aimed to explore the issues in the implementation of online education practice in elementary school, to study teachers' coping strategy to the online education issues and to evaluate teachers' problem-solving skill in online learning practice during the Covid-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: An exploratory research focused on identifying the obstacles in teaching practice faced by elementary school teachers as well as their coping strategy with eight convenience sampled schools. Findings: Online education practice faced unpreparedness and competency issues. Unpreparedness was found in terms of social, technical and cultural factors, while competency issue was related to online education competency and digital competency. Teachers' struggle to cope with the issue in online education practice was focused on the performing conventional education in the online manner, suggesting teachers' lack of competency in encouraging learning success. Teachers neglected the development of students' readiness and competencies to engage in online learning. Moreover, teachers' struggle had the least impact on the development of their online teaching competency and digital competency that are required for carrying out online teaching. In general, teachers' problem-solving skill was below the expected level. These findings suggested that improvement of teachers' competencies is important in order to cope with the issues such as in online education practice during Covid-19 pandemic and to face future challenges in education. Originality/value: This study evaluated the gap between actual action and expected action of elementary school teachers in coping with the issues regarding online education practice. © 2022, Emerald Publishing Limited.
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Purpose>The research aimed to explore the issues in the implementation of online education practice in elementary school, to study teachers' coping strategy to the online education issues and to evaluate teachers' problem-solving skill in online learning practice during the Covid-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approach>An exploratory research focused on identifying the obstacles in teaching practice faced by elementary school teachers as well as their coping strategy with eight convenience sampled schools.Findings>Online education practice faced unpreparedness and competency issues. Unpreparedness was found in terms of social, technical and cultural factors, while competency issue was related to online education competency and digital competency. Teachers' struggle to cope with the issue in online education practice was focused on the performing conventional education in the online manner, suggesting teachers' lack of competency in encouraging learning success. Teachers neglected the development of students' readiness and competencies to engage in online learning. Moreover, teachers' struggle had the least impact on the development of their online teaching competency and digital competency that are required for carrying out online teaching. In general, teachers' problem-solving skill was below the expected level. These findings suggested that improvement of teachers' competencies is important in order to cope with the issues such as in online education practice during Covid-19 pandemic and to face future challenges in education.Originality/value>This study evaluated the gap between actual action and expected action of elementary school teachers in coping with the issues regarding online education practice.
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Covid-19 is a highly contagious disease. Prevention needs to be done to avoid interaction between humans. One of the preventions is checking body temperature. However, a body temperature checker with contact is very risky. Currently, IoT can be applied as a body temperature checking device using the MQTT protocol. However, the MQTT protocol is dependent on the broker, so if the broker is interrupted, it cannot publish information and customers cannot subscribe to topics so that information from censors cannot be received. To overcome this problem, a failover mechanism is needed. In this paper, we develop an Internet of Things (IoT) based automated and contactless body temperature monitoring tool using the MQTT and failover protocols. The failover method is used to support the availability of the MQTT broker. This system is based on a NodeMCU ESP8266 microcontroller with MLX96014 contactless temperature sensor, HC-SR04 Ultrasonic sensor, and Buzzer. The monitoring system is built using Node-Red and stores data using a MySQL database. The test results show the availability of the value reaches a value of 99.96%. Meanwhile, QoS shows that a broker with failover is better than a broker without failover. © 2022 IEEE.
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Introduction: Workers are at higher risk of contracting COVID-19. The risk of COVID-19 transmission is affected by a number of factors, one of them is individual characteristics. This study aims to analyzed the relationship between gender, smoking habits, and pregnancy status and the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the workplace for workers in Surabaya. Methods: As an observational study, this study used cross-sectional design. The population in the study was all workers living in Surabaya who use the internet. This study used purposive sampling technique with a total sample of 542 people. Data were obtained through questionnaires distributed online. Relationships between variables were analyzed using the chi-square or Spearman test. Results: Most of the study respondents were female (62.5%), did not have a smoking habit (87.6%), were not pregnant or breastfeeding (85.6%), and had a moderate risk of transmitting COVID-19 in the workplace (58.1%). No relationship was found between gender (p = 0.859) and pregnancy status (p = 0.063) with the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the workplace. However, there was a slight relationship between smoking habits with the risk of COVID-19 transmission (p=0.028, rs=-0.096), where workers with a smoking habit showed a higher risk of COVID-19 transmission in the workplace. Conclusion: : Based on statistical result, smoking habits are a factor related to the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the workplace for workers in Surabaya. Implementing control strategies for COVID-19 using hierarchy of control methode is important for workers in Surabaya. © 2022 UPM Press. All rights reserved.
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PurposeThe research aimed to explore the issues in the implementation of online education practice in elementary school, to study teachers' coping strategy to the online education issues and to evaluate teachers' problem-solving skill in online learning practice during the Covid-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachAn exploratory research focused on identifying the obstacles in teaching practice faced by elementary school teachers as well as their coping strategy with eight convenience sampled schools.FindingsOnline education practice faced unpreparedness and competency issues. Unpreparedness was found in terms of social, technical and cultural factors, while competency issue was related to online education competency and digital competency. Teachers' struggle to cope with the issue in online education practice was focused on the performing conventional education in the online manner, suggesting teachers' lack of competency in encouraging learning success. Teachers neglected the development of students' readiness and competencies to engage in online learning. Moreover, teachers' struggle had the least impact on the development of their online teaching competency and digital competency that are required for carrying out online teaching. In general, teachers' problem-solving skill was below the expected level. These findings suggested that improvement of teachers' competencies is important in order to cope with the issues such as in online education practice during Covid-19 pandemic and to face future challenges in education.Originality/valueThis study evaluated the gap between actual action and expected action of elementary school teachers in coping with the issues regarding online education practice.
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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a big impact on fishermen's lives. Fishermen, as informal workers, are vulnerable to a decline in the quality of life. By default, fishermen's quality of life is considered lower than other professions before the COVID-19 pandemic happened. Now, their quality of life had become even lower during the pandemic. In relations to this, the objective of this study was to compare fishermen's quality of life before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: The study was conducted among 70 fishermen in Kenjeran using a simple random sampling technique. The data was obtained using a questionnaire which comprised of sociodemographic characteristics and quality of life measurement using the Quality of Life BREF (WHOQOL-BREF). The fishermen's quality of life was measured based on physical, psychological, social, and environmental dimensions. The data was then analyzed using descriptive statistics and the Wilcoxon Signed Rank test. Results: The results showed significant decline in the mean scores of the quality of life in the total and all quality-of-life dimensions. Conclusion: The results of this study can be used to determine adaptation strategies for fishermen to improve their quality of life. © 2022 UPM Press. All rights reserved.
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Li Coagulopathy is a common predictor of mortality in COVID-19. Meanwhile, enoxaparin is an anticoagulant with anti-inflammatory, endothelial protection, and viral antagonist properties. Therefore, thromboprophylaxis with enoxaparin in COVID-19 is common in clinical settings. This study aims to assess enoxaparin's efficacy across different severity levels by examining its effect on primary outcomes comprising Length of stay (LOS), invasive mechanical ventilation, and mortality as well as secondary in the form of D-dimer, platelets, C-reactive protein (CRP), Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR), and Absolute Lymphocyte Count (ALC). During hospitalization, 269 patients received enoxaparin across varying severity levels comprising mild, moderate, and severe, while the Wilcoxon test was used to analyze the efficacy in each group. Additionally, the differences in patient characteristic profiles across the severity levels were determined using the Kruskal-Wallis test. The increase in mortality rate and the need for mechanical ventilation were directly proportional to the level of severity. D-dimer decreased from 1308.87 ng/ml to 979.83 ng/ml (p=< 0,001) as well as from 1758.41 ng/ml to 1510.68 ng/ml (p=< 0,001) in the mild and moderate levels respectively. The platelet increased from 225.65 to 369.39x10(3)/mu l (p=< 0,001) in mild and 256.77 to 398.97x10(3)/mu l (p=< 0,001) in moderate. Moreover, CRP improved in both mild 52.62 to 49.58 mg/l (p=0.031) and moderate 92.99 to 42.66 mg/l, (p=< 0,001). Based on the results, enoxaparin effectively improves D-dimer, platelet, and CRP levels in mild and moderate but not in severe conditions, however, no effect was found on LOS, NLR, and ALC.
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The global COVID-19 pandemic has raised the risk of malnutrition in children under five years, including stunting. Stunting is common in low-income regions, when families cannot afford nutritious meals. Stunting may become more common as a result of changes in family socioeconomic circumstances, personal cleanliness, and environmental sanitation during the pandemic. This study determined the effect of socioeconomic factors and hygiene sanitation during COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of stunting in coastal areas. This was analytical survey research with cross sectional approach. The total sample was 3886 families who had toddlers aged 0-59 months in the coastal areas in Surabaya City, Indonesia. The study found that low family income, hand-washing habits, clean water sources, sewer access, waste management, and healthy latrine have significant impact to malnutrition, especially stunting. © 2022, Intelektual Pustaka Media Utama. All rights reserved.
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A learning process that always relies on books makes students less interesting and less motivating in learning. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the learning utilizes learning applications and social media such as short message applications. This has a bad impact because it can affect the mentality of the learning process [1], so it is necessary to make adjustments for improvements in the development of a more enjoyable learning process, one of which is by using game applications. It needs an improvement in the development of a more fun learning process, one of which is by using game applications. Game development in learning has not been too focused on the world of education, even though currently many games can be a good learning medium. This research develops a learning media gamification method with speech commands support features contained in Construct 3. This application can be used with mouse clicks or speech commands. The use of gamification with game elements outside of game contests has proven to be effective in increasing students' motivation and interest in learning. © 2022 IEEE.
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Purpose: This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and preventative behaviors of university students in Indonesia toward Tuberculosis (TB). Patients and Methods: Participants included students from a university in West Java, Indonesia, who were aged ≥18 years, had access to electronic communication devices and the internet, and agreed to participate in this study. This cross-sectional study invited participants to fill an online questionnaire on Google Forms, and the study was conducted from February to March 2021. Descriptive statistics was used to describe the demographic characteristics of participants. Differences in participants' knowledge, attitudes, and preventative behavior were analyzed using t-test. Spearman correlation coefficient was used to determine the relationships between variables. Characteristics of participants that influenced preventative behavior toward TB were analyzed using linear multiple regression analysis. Results: This study included 524 students. The average knowledge scores out of a possible 11 points of health and non-health students were 7.03 ± 2.36 (out of 11) and 4.98 ± 2.20, respectively. The attitude was 45.40 ± 4.17 (out of 52), 43.75 ± 4.09 respectively, and their average scores out of 44 for preventative behaviors toward TB were 33.08 ± 4.49 and 33.16 ± 4.40, respectively. Female students and students from health faculties demonstrated greater knowledge and better attitudes. Students with a postgraduate academic degree had better knowledge and attitudes and engaged in more preventative behavior. Students who did not smoke had greater knowledge than those who did, and students who had received information about TB engaged in more preventative behavior. Conclusion: Faculty, knowledge of symptoms, preventative examinations, and attitudes toward preventative examinations, treatment, and preventative education, were found to affect TB prevention behavior. These variables should be emphasized in the development of university TB socialization and education programs. The internet and social media should be used in TB education for students.
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INTRODUCTION: The comorbidity of tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus (TB-DM) is a looming global co-epidemic problem. Despite the Indonesian Government's ongoing effort to impose regulation for collaborative TB-DM management, the involvement of private primary care providers (PPCs) has not been considered before the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to capture the PPCs' existing practices and explore their challenges, opportunities, and potential roles in the collaborative TB-DM services and control. METHODS: A descriptive qualitative research design was used to collect data. Two Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) were conducted with 13 healthcare workers (HCWs) from different private clinics and eight private/solo general practitioners (GPs) from Yogyakarta City, Indonesia. We triangulated these data with data from FGDs of HCWs community health centers (CHCs) and in-depth interviews of three regional health regulators, five hospitals staff members, and a representative of national health insurance. The discussions were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and subjected to thematic analysis. RESULTS: PPCs have not been initiated into the implementation of the collaborative TB-DM programme. The themes identified in this study were health system-related barriers, knowledge and perception of HCWs, lack of implementation of bi-directional screening, and needs of multisector role. The potential roles identified for PPCs include involvement in health promotion, bi-directional screening, patient referral, and data reporting according to the TB-DM programme indicators. However, more thorough improvement of PPCs' capacity and logistic supplies are needed to provide comprehensive TB treatment. CONCLUSION: Although PPCs' involvement in implementing collaborative TB-DM services has yet to be considered, their potential role should not be neglected. Therefore, it is essential to increase their involvement by enhancing their capacity and improving the Public-Private Mix. PPCs' engagement should be initiated and maintained to ensure the sustainability of the programme.
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COVID-19 , Diabetes Mellitus , Tuberculosis , Diabetes Mellitus/diagnosis , Diabetes Mellitus/epidemiology , Diabetes Mellitus/therapy , Humans , Pandemics , Primary Health Care , Qualitative Research , SARS-CoV-2 , Tuberculosis/epidemiology , Tuberculosis/prevention & controlABSTRACT
Marine litter is a significant threat to the marine environment, human health, and the economy. In this study, beach litter surveys along Vietnamese coasts were conducted in a local context to quantify and characterize marine litter using the modified GESAMP marine litter monitoring guideline. A total of 21,754 items weighing 136,820.2 g was recorded across 14 surveys from September 2020 to January 2021. Plastic was the most abundant type of litter by both quantity (20,744 items) and weight (100,371.2 g). Fishing gear 1 (fishing plastic rope, net pieces, fishing lures and lines, hard plastic floats) and soft plastic fragments were the most frequently observed items (17.65% and 17.24%, respectively). This study not only demonstrates the abundance and composition of marine litter in Vietnam, it also provides valuable information for the implementation of appropriate preventive measures, such as the redesign of collection, reuse, and recycling programs, and informs policy and priorities, with a focus on action and investment in Vietnam. Moreover, insights from this study indicate that citizen science is a useful approach for collecting data on marine litter in Vietnam.
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Gap of information regarding the risks of Covid-19 conveyed by the government to the public will result in various problems such as socio-economic impacts, loss of trust in the government, and even loss of life. The problem of communicating the risk of Covid-19 is complex because the problems that occur will be interrelated and affect each other. Different perceptions of society and the government in viewing the risk of Covid-19 can hinder the completion of Covid-19 cases. This problem should be seen as a system. Systems dynamics is a discipline that focuses on the research and analysis of information feedback systems. By modeling a risk communication strategy, this study aims to mapping research opportunity of Covid-19 risk communication problems related to soft variables and developing modes for their resolution by using system dynamic. © 2021 IEEE.